Globalisation

Question 1

% owning phones? increase?

Example of how technology has possibly accelerated Globalisation? Company example - location?

Answer 1

Mobile Phones, 2005 = 6% of Africans owned a mobile phone 2015 = 70%. M Pesa has helped businesses by allowing to transfer credit between phone users

Question 2

do Transport and tech innovations mean globalisation is inevitable?

Answer 2

NO - Tech isn’t distributed evenly due to global digital divide, pop density not high enought to atract investors etc

Question 3

Who are the three INternational Orgaisation that hav acted as the World brokers’??

Answer 3

The World Bank, World Trade Organisatio and IMF.

Question 4

List the 4 different ways that GOVERNMENTS can accelerate globalisation

Answer 4

Neo Liberalism
Privatisation -
Encouraging busines start ups
The growth of free trade blocs

Question 5

Benefits of removing internal tarrif s WITH EXAMPLES (5)

Answer 5

-Companies gain customers _ Tesco gained 70 M after EU Expansion
-Specialisation
-Enlarged market increased demand, increae volume of production, lowering manafa costs, cheaper products
-Encourage TNC’S to set up there
-Spatial division of labour (US AND MEXICO)

Question 6

Example of Trade Blocs helping developing nations? What is their growth like?

Answer 6

ASEAN - Helped the Indonesia’s Manafacturing industry and Philipines call centre workforce gain worldwide reputation. High amount og growth Cambodia 7.6%!!!

Question 7

What three Countries used SEZ’s to help its growth?

Answer 7

China, India and Indonesia

Question 8

What did Indonesia do to grow?
Who and why lent them money?

Answer 8

Turned away from communism - opened the market. TNC’s came due to low costs such as GAP and Levi’s
World Bank lent money to further encourgage FDI and free trade

Question 9

What did India do to grow ?
any barriers to that growth?
Percentage of family owned business?

Answer 9

Finacial reforms in 1991 - Large TNC’s such as Tata steel, major global players
TC’s now have to partner with a local business - has dtereed FDI - IKEA left - 90% family owned

Question 10

What did China do to grow?
TNC’S?
Positive impacts on population?

Answer 10

Open Door Policy 1978 - TRiggered the largest human migration of 300 million to urban places. Led to low wage factories which TNC’s rushed in for - CHINA DUBBED FACTORY OF THE WORLD
Freed over 400 million from poverty

Question 11

How much FDI did Shenzhen attract in 1992?

Answer 11

$4.3 BN - 14% of chinas total FDI

Question 12

What is global shift?

Answer 12

The INternational Relocation of different types of industries such as manafacturing

Question 13

Example of Global shift in manafacturing?

Answer 13

Decrease in EU, US, Japan
Increase - East Asia and China

Question 14

Bnefits of an emerging Asia?

Answer 14

By 2030 Asia ill be home to 3 billion middle class people
Education has improve

Question 15

Costs of an emerging Asia?

Answer 15

-Acceleration of environmental decline - (Nigerias forests have halved)

Question 16

What are the three types of migration?

Answer 16

International
Economic
Rural-Urban

Question 17

How and Why are MegaCities growing?

Answer 17

Increase in migration
Large natural population growth in developing mega cities (Lack of contraception)
Most Mega cities are in Asia/Africa
33 Mega cities - 16 of them are in China

Question 18

What social and Environmental challenges does rapidly growing mega city growth bring?

Answer 18

Large deforestation/Huge amounts of pollution(Water/Factories)
Poor quality housing - high demand - squatter settlements
Lack of resources
Mixing of cultures

Question 19

How does international migration deepend interdependence between regions?

Answer 19

Can send remittance back to family in developed nations
Labour - high skilled/Low skilled
Global Hubs help connect places

Question 20

Example of mass Low wage economic Migration?

Answer 20

Indian Migrants moving to UAE to work in the construction industry for extremely low wages

Question 21

what are the impacts of migration on the HOST country?

Answer 21

-Increase in population
-Social/Cultural tensions
-Damage to the environment
-More Tax money
-Migrants willing to do Low wage jobs locals may not want to do

Question 22

What are the impacts of migration on the SOURCE location?

Answer 22

More money being spent - due to remittances being sent home
-Reduced Workforce
-Reduced Tax Base
-Brain Drain
-Reduced Strain on resources - eases pressure on housing and availability

Question 23

What is cultural Diffusion?

Answer 23

Where different cultures merge together in a place due to different people moving to places with different cultures

Question 24

How can Cultural diffusion said to be as a direct result of Globalisation?

Answer 24

Easy access and transport with Shrinking World Tech - made it easier to occur
TNC’s moving abroad leads to their culture spreading to the local population hence diffusion

Question 25

What are the impacts of cultural diffusion?

Answer 25

-Social Tensions -Extreme Nationalism -Cultural Erosion Hybridisation Increased resource use and devaluation of ecosystems (Deforestation)

Question 26

What is cultural Erosion and how is it changing the built and natural environment?

Answer 26

This is where a culture is wiped out and replaced with a new culture (Usually a Western Culture) This usually entails lots of environmental damage Urban Landscape increases

Question 27

Why are some concerned about globalisation?

Answer 27

They feel that cultures and traditions are being wiped out Lots of environmental damage takes place De-Industrialisation

Question 28

Define Development?

Answer 28

Generally means the ways in which a country seeks to develop economically and improve living standards for its inhabitants

Question 29

What are the three types of Development Indictators with examples for each?

Answer 29

Social - Life Expectancy/Literacy Rates Economic-GDP,GNI(Gross National Income) Environmental-Green Spaces,Greenhouse,%rene

Question 30

What evidence is there to support the view that rich are getting richer, poorer getting poorer.

Answer 30

The richest 1% saw their share of the walth go from 44% in 2009 to 99% in 2016 1 billion people still lve on less than $1.25 a day people in relative poverty has grown

Question 31

What evidence is there to GO AGAINST the view that rich are getting richer, poorer getting poorer.

Answer 31

The economy has grown much faster than % pop Wealth and inequality has grown more slowly over time Global [Poverty has been halved since the Intro of the Milleniul Development Goals in 2000

Question 32

What is the trend with the 'Consumer Class'

Answer 32

The amount of peope on over $10 a day has nearly quadrupled from 1990 (1.2b) to 3.8bn in 2025

Question 33

What effect does the rise in the consumer class have for the environment?

Answer 33

Increasing pop and increasing consumer class puts strain on resourcees Resource depletion Land degredation

Question 34

What environmental tensions have been caused by the rise of the global incomes?

Answer 34

increase in meat diets - large eco footprint More water stress - hrough food, urbanisation Increased demand for energy Global diffusion and adoption of manafactured items - us lifestyle- high eco footprint

Question 35

What are the three types of sustainability?

Answer 35

Economic Susatainability - Acess to reliable income Social Sustainability - Reasonable quality of life Env sustainability - reduce damage to env, renewables resources used more

Question 36

How can problems of globalisation be managed?

Answer 36

Reduce, reuse and recycle Ethical Purchasing Local Sourcing

Question 37

What is the Local Souricng Solution and what problem is it trying to solve? PSD on who is solving the issue?

Answer 37

Low price of container shipping/costs i developing countries - TNC's maxamise profits - large footprint example- fuji Water , 20K miles Solution - buy locally sourced food for example such as THE EDEN PROJECT

Question 38

PSD on place that is transitioning with local sourcing on mind?

Answer 38

Todmorden - Bottom Up scheme - Grow their own food and plants - reduces reliance on globalised products and is sustainable

Question 39

Example of a Ethical consumption?

Answer 39

Rana Plaza in Dhakar collapsed , workers still had to do orders after it collapsed - led to the Accord on Fire and Safety Bill - legall binding agreement on workers safety

Question 40

Example of a Fair Trade Scheme?

Answer 40

Fairtrade - used in Ghana - gives Cocoa farmers more for their proucts - $2K per tonne - recieve training for farms - can borrow money

Question 41

Explain recycling and resource consumption with some PSD

Answer 41

Reducing waste important to help environment - 50% recycling target by 2020 in EU- The UK sends its excess waste to Sweden - who have very good recycling infrastructure 99% recycled