Oxfam Fair Trade Clips

Year 13 A level students might want to share this link with IB students for their development course. You should by now have a well formed position in regard to the trade/aid debate. This video is not endorsing Fair Trade as in the chocolate but rather fair trade, which along with apropriate aid is up there with effective governance in terms of important factors leading to development. Fair trade in this context refers to cutting government (agricultural) subsidies and opening up markets by reducing trading barriers such as, but not limited to financial tarriffs. It aslo highlights the problem of dumping cheap products on developing countries' markets. I'd be interested to hear some of your ideas. What do you think are the most important factors to develop countries.

An interesting book to read would be:
'How to spend $50 billion to make the world a better place' by Bjorn Lomborg. This book is available free on google.books