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Stacie Schwartz
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| Date registered | 09.08.2013 |
| Last online: | Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:44 am |
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11.18.2013 |
 Stacie Schwartz
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Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:44 am | jump to post
Since we're skipping this assignment, I'm going to post my response to Reluctant Entrepreneurs / Black Sheep here! =)
I think the chapter “Reluctant Entrepreneurs” had the best overview of the pros and cons of microfinance, and insights into small business ownership in developing nations, of any article we’ve read this semester. For example, this quote seemed pretty in line with everything we have read, “Given the chance, it seems that even people who had been hit by extreme hardship were abl...
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11.11.2013 |
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Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:26 am | jump to post
Sarah Besky’s “Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade Futures” describes the impact of Fair Trade certification on the Darjeeling tea plantations in India. According to Besky, plantation owners want to become Fair Trade certified so they can skirt pre-existing regulations, the established auction system, and requirements (from the Plantation Labor Act, established during British colonial rule) to provide a specific degree of social welfare. In the Darjeeling tea business, Besky argues the previous rule...
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10.21.2013 |
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Mon Oct 21, 2013 12:47 am | jump to post
There were a few quotes in “Game-Playing: Rethinking Power and Empowerment” that stood out to me. The first is from page 10, “Empowerment… is a force exerted by an individual or group as a capacity to produce change and an affecting and transforming power but not a controlling power.” This concept stood out to me because the idea of empowerment in this context is presenting an idea to an individual or group so they can be influenced by it, take the idea, and continue to run with it. This is h...
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10.07.2013 |
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Mon Oct 07, 2013 7:31 am | jump to post
I become frustrated when people use any version of, “that’s how it’s always been done.” The thing that sticks out to me to the most in “Harnessing Entrepreneurial Energy” is that William Foote, Founder and CEO of Root Capital, intentionally opposed the established loaning system in order to help people in need of financing. In the article, William Foote describes how difficult it is for out-of-the-way farmers and communes to get financing for their product or export because banks find them to ...
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09.30.2013 |
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Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:57 am | jump to post
The statistics in “A Brilliant Idea” ended in 2007, with the U.K. beating the U.S. in total sales per capita. Out of curiosity, I set out to find out what has happened since then. Oddly enough, it’s incredibly difficult to find any real data on total Fair Trade sales, but I was able to find a university study done on the years 2007 – 2009 (http://www.uvm.edu/~kpanosia/Site/About_Me_files/FairTradeReport.pdf). The most revealing bit of data in this report is on page 8, Data Table 1, “Retail Sa...
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09.16.2013 |
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Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:57 am | jump to post
The documentary Blood Coltan shows the clear and disgusting link between usage of the mineral coltan and funding warlord regimes in the Congo. Similar to farming conditions shown in The Dark Side of Chocolate, children are kidnapped and forced to work – only with coltan mining it seems much worse. Coltan funds warring factions who rape, steal, and kill as they please without consequence.
Warlords, such as General Kunda, are able to keep their militaries funded because export companies eager...
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09.09.2013 |
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Mon Sep 09, 2013 4:52 am | jump to post
Hello,
I am a student in Professor Combellick's Entrepreneurship, Fair Trade and Social Justice class at Fordham in New York. It is nice to meet you all and I hope I am responding in the right place!
A few points jumped out at my while watching the Films For Action documentary "The Dark Side of Chocolate." Many employees and executives of cocoa companies both started out adamantly dismissing the possibility of child labor in the plantations that supply their cacao. For example, early on i...
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