Theoretical and Empirical Study on Poverty Alleviation through Fair Trade and Construction of "Economy of Virtue"

公平贸易旨在支持社会经济努力，使边缘化的生产者独立。公平贸易最重要的支柱是商品的最低价格制度和赋予生产者权力的社会溢价。本研究评估了公平贸易对边缘人群及其社区的直接和间接影响，包括积极的和消极的影响，考察了有意识的消费者如何出现的条件，并从道德经济的角度阐明了公平贸易的思想和理论基础。研究结果发表为“通过替代社会经济制度减少贫困和农村发展：公平贸易运动和美德经济”（英文）和“通过公平贸易和“美德经济”建设减轻贫困的理论和实证研究”（日文）。这两份报告将在几个月后上传到Alter trade Research的网站（http://test.altertrade.net/）。

Fair trade aims at supporting socio-economic efforts to be independent by marginalized producers. The most important pillars of fair trade are the floor price system of commodities and the social premium for producers empowerment. This study evaluated the direct and indirect effects on marginalized people and their communities, including the positive and negative ones, and examined the conditions for how conscious consumers appear, as well as clarifying the ideological and the theoretical bases of fair trade from the context of economy of virtue. The result of the study was published as "Poverty reduction and Rural Development through Alternative Socio-economic Regimes: Fair Trade Movement and Economy of Virtue" (in English) and "Theoretical and Empirical Study on Poverty Alleviation through Fair Trade and Construction of "Economy of Virtue" (in Japanese). Both will be uploaded onto the website of Alter trade Research several months later (http://test.altertrade.net/).