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<p>DFID’s Economic Development Strategy sets out the importance of growth and jobs
for sustainable poverty reduction. Fair and ethical trade standards have an important
contribution to make to this especially in combatting modern slavery and child labour.
Officials are engaging with a wide range of stakeholders including business, standards
organisations and NGOs on these issues. DFID has been a long term partner of Fairtrade
and is currently supporting innovative new work under the Fairtrace initiative. This
is a technology-based supply chain mapping programme that will help increase transparency
of supply chains.</p>
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