Topic 5 Flashcards
FDI
Foreign direct investment
Invest land or buildings to build their industries
Or
Buy or invest in an already exsisting company
Enterprise zone
A place where the governament develops an area by bringing industry creating jobs, lower taxes etc
Net migration
Amount of people coming in and out
Economy stages
Primary-agriculture and mining
Secondary-manifacturing
Tertiary-trade, services
Quartiary-I.T. development and research
Globalisation
Countries communicate and become intergrated. Exports, inports and deals happen
Privatisation
Services that were previously ran by governament ran by independent companies now
Free trade
Reducing import and export restrictions
Rebranding
Rebranding is about changing how a city looks to atract people
Strategies to make urban places more sustainable
Employment-increasing jobs decreases poverty
Recycling-more recycling means fewer resources are used
Green spaces-makes a place where people want to go, work and live
Transport-noises and pollution can be reduced by adding congestion zones which discourages people to drive there. Bike lanes makes it safer for the public. Electric transport reduces emissions