Over recent years, this topic has come up as ‘the most asked question’ in Business and Economics lessons. Specifically, is it ‘ethical’ to buy low priced goods produced in poor countries? My personal answer is an emphatic ‘yes’. It’s hard to see how our refusal to open some markets to free trade – particularly in agriculture – helps the world’s poor
http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/business-studies/comments/the-primark-question/#extended
Panorama puts Primark's claims that it can deliver cheap, fast fashion without breaking ethical guidelines to the test.
Posing as industry buyers in India, the programme's reporter Tom Heap and his team find some of India's poorest people working long, gruelling hours on Primark clothes in slum workshops and refugee camps.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7461496.stm
