In this article I consider two consequentialist positions on whether individuals in affluent countries ought to purchase Fair Trade goods. One is a narrow argument, which asserts that individuals should purchase Fair Trade goods because this will have positive direct effects on poverty...

This article categorises the emerging conceptualisations of Fair Trade and explores which of them offers the best characterisation of the project. It introduces Fair Trade and establishes a set of desiderata to guide the process of conceptualisation. It is argued that the practices and rhetoric...

Sets out the reasons for these changes and their impact on the levels of detail ONS will publishIn January 2008, as part of a wider reprioritisation of the Office for National Statistics? (ONS) business, the sample size for the Monthly Production Inquiry (MPI) will be reduced by 17 per cent. Of...

Describes the above, resulting from concerns about quality of many detailed estimates and a wider reprioritisation of ONS's businessThe Index of Production (IoP) published on 10 March 2008 was based on improved methods, as described in an article published in the January 2008 edition of Economic...