Globalisation EQ2

Which option is not an example of the benefits of globalisation for emerging countries?

• Poverty reduction and waged work increase

• Education and training has improved

• Environment and resource pressures have increased

• Infrastructure and the built environment has developed

Which of the following are costs of TNCs outsourcing to India?

• Some call centre workers complain they are exploited.

• India's call centre workers earn good middle-class wages by Indian standards.

• A new Indian 'techno-elite' who earn 3500 rupees have increased the purchasing power of the average Indian.

• Despite overall growth, the gap between rich and poor has widened sharply in India.

Which of the following are examples of benefits of outsourcing manufacturing to China?

• In the early years, many workers were exploited in sweatshops.

• The environment continues to suffer greatly - eg the Airpocalypse, reduction in life expectancy in Chinese cities due to lung disease.

• People in China are enjoying large income gains - more people can afford smartphones and fridges.

• Increasingly Chinese companies are developing their own products.

Which of the following had workers poisoned by the chemicals used to treat the glass in iPhones?

• China

• Ivory Coast

• Indonesia

• India

Which of the following had tens of thousands of their people suffer ill health after toxic waste was dumped by a ship along their coastline?

• China

• Indonesia

• Ivory Coast

• India

Which of the following has suffered land degradation and biodiversity loss as an area the size of 100,000 football pitches is lost each year to create oil palm plantations.

• China

• India

• Ivory Coast

• Indonesia

What happened during the 1970s in the Developed World?

• Deindustrialisation

• Deforestation

• Depopulation in the inner cities

• Defenistration

What happened to inner cities in the UK and the USA as their manufacturing jobs went to Asia in the global shift?

• They regenerated quickly and wealth remained at the core of the cities.

• They immediately changed the function of former brownfield sites and attracted inward investment.

• The areas suffered from a spiral of decline which led to high unemployment, crime, depopulation, and dereliction.

• The areas improved environmentally and attracted in new a new gentrified class.

An _______ ________ is someone who moves from place to place inside the borders of a country.

______________ is an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas.