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| Name: | Brigid Hilton | | Location: | Bronx, NY |
| Date registered | 09.09.2013 |
| Date of birth: | 1. May 1995 |
| Last online: | Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:11 am |
| Sex: |  female |
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11.18.2013 |
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Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:13 am | jump to post
The two readings this week: the chapter named “Reluctant Entrepreneurs” by Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Duflo as well as “The Parable of the Black Sheep” by Vijay Sharma both take a unique approach to the idea of entrepreneurship in the lower class.
Banerjee and Duflo take this on in a micro-finance directed way as they share their struggles to find entrepreneurs that would accept Al Amana’s loans as funding. “Al Amana is one of Morocco’s largest MFI’s in rural communities that had previously be...
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11.12.2013 |
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:28 am | jump to post
Jacqueline Novogratz’s article, “The Education of a Patient Capitalist,” in her book, “The Blue Sweater,” was incredibly informative about the path she took and the difficulties that working with a non-profit, entail. Although she mentions many roadblocks and changes in the thinking about the eventual funding of the “Acumen Fund,” in the end Novogratz shows how important assisting the poor truly is.
I found a lot of wisdom throughout Novogratz’s chapter, especially when she had to re-mold th...
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11.04.2013 |
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Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:25 pm | jump to post
Sarah Besky’s article, “Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade Futures,” takes on a different approach to the implementation of Fair Trade and the outcomes from it. I found this article very interesting, as Besky takes a surprising route in the article, by arguing that Fair Trade is not always as beneficial as we believe it to be. This reading definitely opened my eyes and my mind that there are still two sides to what Fair Trade does and is. There are always two sides to a situation, and I think that it...
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10.22.2013 |
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Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:58 am | jump to post
“Blood Coltan” reminded me a lot of the documentary that we watched last week in class (The Dark Side of Chocolate), but in a different way. While “The Dark Side of Chocolate” focused almost completely on how the economic side of chocolate brought about the human trafficking and unethical working conditions, I felt as if “Blood Coltan” focused more on how the politics affect the people within the Coltan mines in the Congo. I could see how Patrick Forestrier was trying to expose the slavery and ...
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Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:38 am | jump to post
I found the article, “‘Game-Playing’: Rethinking Power and Empowerment” interesting and thought provoking. I had never intricately thought of the idea of power before. When I thought of power, I probably thought mainly of world leaders, dictators, CEO’s of fortune 500 companies... people who could probably get another person or group to do something against their will. I mainly thought of the “power over,” focused on businesses and individuals both good and bad, but in the area of Fair Trade.....
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10.07.2013 |
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Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:52 am | jump to post
In “Harnessing Entrepreneurial Energy,” William Foote (the Founder and CEO of Root Capital) focuses on the beginnings of his non-profit organization “that grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America.”
One part that I thought was an important part in the article is the issue that caused Foote to begin his business in the first place. The challenge that sparked Root Capital are the businesses “stuck in the gap between micro-finance and tradition...
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09.30.2013 |
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Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:31 am | jump to post
John Bowes' "A Brilliant Idea" helped to simplify and expand on what exactly Fair Trade is, and more importantly: how Fair Trade is important and benefits our modern day world.
The statistics Bowes presents of how "1.4 billion people of the world's population are trying to survive at or below the World Bank's official poverty line of just $1.25 a day" and how "the poorest 40 per cent account for just 5% of global income whilst the richest 20% take three quarters of the pot." While these statis...
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09.23.2013 |
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Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:41 pm | jump to post
Fair Trade: A Human Journey has probably been my favorite assignment thus far. While the documentaries were interesting and informative, I loved learning about the birth of Fair Trade and how it got to the place that it is now. I think this reading showed how Fair Trade in general is and can continue to be a great business model, and how it directly affects people in a positive way like Shilpi and Fatima, for example.
The story surrounding the creation of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) r...
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09.09.2013 |
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Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:12 pm | jump to post
Hi. My name is Brigid Hilton, and I am a student in Kate Combellick's Entrepreneurship and Fair Trade class at Fordham University.
"The Dark Side of Chocolate" was, if nothing else, an extremely eye opening start to the "evils" our world faces, and why fair trade laws and regulations are important to the quality of life. I think most of humanity has some knowledge that things are not fair and as they should be. We hear of child labor, human trafficking, modern day slavery, but it is the visual...
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