Globalisation Case Studies

Question 1

How many people live in Bangalore

Answer 1

10 mil

Question 2

Where is Bangalore

Answer 2

India

Question 3

How many are employed in the IT sector

Answer 3

1 mil

Question 4

What is Bangalore known as

Answer 4

The electronic city

Question 5

How many tech companies are based in Bangalore

Answer 5

1,200

Question 6

What is the primary language in Bangalore

Answer 6

English

Question 7

Name Three socio-economic impacts of Bangalores technology sector

Answer 7

• Emerging middle class
• House price increase
• Retail led Westernisation

Question 8

How many lakes use to be in Bangalore and how many are there now?

Answer 8

100 now only 17

Question 9

What are the roads like in Bangalore

Answer 9

Heavily congested producing high levels of noise and air pollution

Question 10

Why is the current sanitation situation unsustainable in Bangalore

Answer 10

Water and Sewerage companies can not keep up with

Question 11

What transport management measures are being put in place in Bangalore

Answer 11

• New airport part funded by both public and private investment
• Toll Roads
• New government funded metro

Question 12

What is an issue in China?

Answer 12

The relationship between the environment and globalisation

Question 13

How much land is degregated as result of the environmental impacts of globalisation in China

Answer 13

40%

Question 14

What was the decline in China of vertebrates

Answer 14

50%

Question 15

What are some pollution and health issues in China

Answer 15

• Beijing constant pollution alerts
• cancer rates so high there are now whole villages named cancer villages as the rates are so high

Question 16

What % of lakes are polluted in China

Answer 16

70%

Question 17

What fraction of water in china is completely unusable

Answer 17

1/4

Question 18

What is the supply issue with coal and oil in China

Answer 18

Demand outweighs supply

Question 19

In the 1920s how many people were employed in Leicesters textile industry

Answer 19

30,000

Question 20

Where were many of the migrant workers from who came to Leicester

Answer 20

India and Pakistan

Question 21

Why was there large scale de-industrialisation in the 1970s

Answer 21

Offshoring to access cheaper labour and lower tax areas

Question 22

What has happened to the derelict land in Leicester

Answer 22

It is contaminated by dyes , gas or coal

Question 23

What happened to the land in Leicester

Answer 23

Was left abandoned

Question 24

What sort of reputation does Leicester have and how did this occur

Answer 24

Reputation for crime due to mass de-industrialisation and being let go

Question 25

What does Leicester home now

Answer 25

Poverty stricken ethnic minorities

Question 26

In 2014 what % of house buyers in central london were foreign

Answer 26

82%

Question 27

What nationality were most of these London buyers

Answer 27

Qatari and Russian

Question 28

What is causing property price inflation?

Answer 28

High demand for housing

Question 29

What does elite migration in London bring

Answer 29

Investments eg in the shard , canary wharf and harrods

Question 30

What do the UAE and Qatar suffer from

Answer 30

Labour shortages

Question 31

What % of the UAE workforce is migrant

Answer 31

90

Question 32

What countries do the migrant workers in the UAE come from

Answer 32

India and Pakistan

Question 33

What did both the UAE and Qatar undergo?

Answer 33

Rapid industrialisation and building of infrastructure

Question 34

Why has the UAE and Qatar undergone rapid industrialisation

Answer 34

International tourism

Question 35

What is a speculation about the labour in the UAE and Qatar

Answer 35

The levels of safety due to high numbers of work place accidents

Question 36

What has New Delhi experienced

Answer 36

Internal migration

Question 37

What was the % increase in population of New Delhi between 2010-14

Answer 37

40%

Question 38

What was large internal migration caused by in New Delhi

Answer 38

Natural increase Rural -> Urban migration

Question 39

What is allowing more jobs to be created in new delhi

Answer 39

FDI

Question 40

What companies have set up HQs in new delhi

Answer 40

Microsoft and Coca-Cola

Question 41

What commonly happens to rural migrants who move to New Delhi

Answer 41

They end up in slums like Dharvi one of the largest slum in the world

Question 42

What does large-scale migration do to the cities infrastructure

Answer 42

Put pressure on it