Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
Institut supérieur de contrôle, audit et finance

Master2 : Comptabilité, contrôle, audit

THEME :

Commerce équitable,
Phénomène social
Ou solution économique ?

Réalisé par :

NEDAM MOHAMED AMINE

Encadré par :
Mr MAC POINTET

2007-2008

INTRODUCTION : ANGLAIS

Fair trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach to alleviating global poverty and promoting sustainability. The movement advocates the payment of a fair price as well as social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of a wide variety of goods. It focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries.
Fair trade's strategic intent is to deliberately work with marginalized producers and workers in order to help them move from a position of vulnerability to security and economic self-sufficiency. It also aims at empowering them to become stakeholders in their own organizations and actively play a wider role in the global arena to achieve greater equity in international trade.
But this detailed definition allowing explaining the true sense of this type of trade really remains controversial, because it reflects the vision of social point of view. This last which is accused of not objectivity and as being a mask of a hidden objective being aimed at changing the habits of consumption of the rich countries, or at finding an argument for an overprice.

As part of the treatment of this topic: ‘Fair trade, social phenomenon or economic resolution? ’;

I shall begin in a first party called a social movement, to introduce the evolution of this type of trade as well as its fundamental principles and its structure, then in a second announced party the economic vision of fair trade, I shall discuss topic by putting in an obvious place several arguments allowing to clarify a second compared point of view speaking about the danger carried in food-producing