Where does the Fair Trade money go? How much consumers pay extra for Fair Trade coffee and how this value is split along the value chain
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عنوان ژورنال: World Development
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0305-750X
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105006