From
"Creating a Market for Fair Trade" by Evelyn Iritani,
L.A. Times:
"William Easterly, a former World Bank economist who teaches at New York University, called the fair-trade movement a 'brilliant marketing ploy' that had shown limited success in reducing poverty. He said a far better way to help poor African farmers would be to remove the barriers that prevent them from exporting their sugar and cotton to the U.S. and Europe." [
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posted by Matt Borondy at 8/10/2006 11:04:00 AM 
