Examines Several Issues To

Economic Health

Andrew Charlton, known economist, former Senior Economic

Advisor to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and current business

professional, understands the relationships between fair trade,

climate change, poverty and economic health. A Rhodes

scholar, Oxford graduate and author of several insightful books

and essays, Charlton seeks to examine these relationships in

more depth, and to show people what he believes to be key

modern issues impacting the global economy.

Climate change is something that affects everyone, regardless of the

health or wealth of the nation. The world population, which

continues to grow at a staggering rate, continues to create a higher

demand for both energy and natural resources, making the need for

cooperation and collaboration between nations more important than

ever.

Andrew Charlton tackles not only the impact of climate change, but

also the role of free trade in the empowerment of developing

countries to become more involved in the fight to stem it, in his

essay Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet. In

this essay, he discusses the link between the poverty of

underdeveloped nations and the climate change crisis.

Trade imbalances tend to benefit one nation over the

other, leading to a gross disproportionality in wealth

between relatively healthy nations and those struggling

to make ends meet. Andrew Charlton examines the need

for more fair trade practices in his book Fair Trade for

All. This book takes a look at how the implementation of

and adherence to fair trade ethics can help to reduce the

wealth gap between nations, as well as to work towards

establishing increased independence and prosperity forunderdeveloped nations.

Poverty, without a doubt, has an impact on everyone,

and affects both an individual’s and a nation’s ability to

grow, prosper and achieve a sustainable lifestyle. The

implementation of fair trade practices, Charlton argues,

can go a long way towards bridging the gap between

richer and poorer countries, and can help to reduce, and

perhaps even someday eliminate, the scourge of poverty

once and for all.

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