Governance Flashcards
(119 cards)
Poverty
300k Bangladeshi labour migrants in 2005, 900k in 2009 - 2/3 work in Gulf states
Remmitences account for half average income of rural households
Poverty rate 70% in 1971, 40% in 2005
2 mil garment workers made unemployed and 24.5 mil new poor due to covid
Primary commodities
60% of UK cocoa beans from Ghana
Choc industry worth £4B
Poor access to markets
All tomato processing plants shut by 2021 in Ghana
Farmers on 80p a day
Schengen
Made in 1985
Germany took in 1.1m refugees
When did migration act stop mass migration
1971
Superpowers
Uk had dominant naval powers in 1800s
US has dominated world affairs since 1945
Global hubs
East London tech city 2010 - £50M donation by pm in 2012
1340 businesses
70% increase in rent prices in past 15 yrs
Remittances
India has received most since 2008
$125B in 2023
75% of fillipino households rely on it
Gender inequality
100,000py out-migrate annually in Armenia
Contribution to Public Finances
34% more in taxes than in benifits in UK in 2011 from EEA migrants
Those outside the EEA only 2% more in taxes than benifits
Pressure on services
Immigration drained UK public purse of £95B from 1995 to 2011
Filling labour shortages
Employment rate for 16-64 yr old migrants in EU is 79% compared to 74.% UK born
No. of refugees, Idps and asylum seekers
40m idps
20m refugees
42m asylum seekers waiting on responses by end of 2019
Internal displacement in SSA
6.8m displaced for conflict and 4.3m for disasters in 2020
9mil in 2022 due to conflict, 7.4mil due to disasters
Venezuela refugee crisis
7.71mil venezuelan refugees by 2023
25% requiring humanitarian aid
Poverty rate over 95%
2000 leaving the country daily
Columbia, Peru, Equador, Chile host 70%
4m in latin america still live in poverty
Reliance on 95% of export revenue
Inflation rose by 1.7m % in 2000s
Syrian refugee crisis
5mil refugees and 6mil idps - half children since 2011
16.7mil in need of humanitarian assistance
126K in Jordan
Refugee Convention
1951, protocol 1967
Convention relating to stateless persons
1954
99 states signed by 2024
Oxfam in Syria
Since 2013
Growth in Chinas urban population
18% to 31% from 1978 to 1999 - rise of 222mil
Influential governmental policies in rural urban migration
1958 Hukou loosened in 1980s
1978 Reform and open
1979 One child
Burkina Faso displacement
2M IDP’s
Land grabs in myanmar
4000 in 2012
42 timber shipments from there to US in 2022