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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil.

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Breakthrough on Global Access at WIPO in Geneva!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., Here are some questions and answers I've prepared on this topic, based on my recent trip to Geneva to attend the first week of discussions on the issue.

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Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges

Non Profit Quarterly

When the BerkShares currency launched in 2006, it involved something of a gamble: that a moribund tradition of local currency issue could still work to bolster local economic activity in the 21 st century. Given the lack of established models, there will undoubtedly be some unanticipated curves ahead. The experiment proved successful.

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