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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

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They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. Since 1986, the country has been transitioning from a central-planned economy to a free-market system and trying to move from its dependency on agriculture to industry.

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World of Good Launches Fair Trade Wage Guide

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The Guide is built with free, open-source technology so that it is easy for artisans to use with their own systems. The hope is that the Guide will help the movement to create a fair trade craft product label, and that by working with IFAT , FTF , or FLO it can be adopted as an international standard around fair trade pricing.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. We believe that, like every consumer movement, it is going to be the first-mover companies and the early brands that build a distribution system.

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