ethical fashion forum: goods from badly-run countries
What is Ethical Fashion?
Ethical Fashion Forum promoted imports from badly-run countries with lower costs for lack of a welfare state. That doesn't reduce poverty. They urged people not to buy from producers in a democratic welfare state like the UK who have extra costs like national insurance. UK taxpayers paid them to do it via a "raft of measures", favours, grants, and even an office from public sector organisations.
Ethical Fashion Forum: Jobs and Poverty
How to Reduce Poverty
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National insurance
is needed, public or private, but compulsory so that everyone has the same costs when competing for work. That's why it's called "national". -
A welfare state
is the same thing with a subsidy from taxes so that everyone in a country gets the benefits, whether or not they do enough formal work with paid contributions. -
Sell the expensive goods & services made in a welfare state
, maybe because customers feel good seeking-out these products, or maybe because conditional tariffs make competition fair with some kind of social clause to say that goods from other welfare states get-in free.
There are a couple of bonuses
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The birth rate among the poorest families may fall, which is more sustainable.
as public services like secondary schools for girls, health services & pensions improve. That's a subject to search in itself for anyone who thinks that more trade always leads to more wages per worker in the slums - factory wages fell while production rose in Bangladesh during the 20-tens. The population growth does not look sustainable. North European countries have much more modest populations and much greater wealth per head, as well as leading the world in social security systems, so the North European system looks more sustainable than the Ex-Pat-Talks-About-Asia model. -
The administration cost of the system may fall, which is more sustainable.
as everyone becomes eligible, more-or-less, so it becomes a cheap deal on social insurance for mainstream taxpayers. That's a subject in itself for anyone who thinks that universal benefits have to be more wasteful or burea