Case Studies
- Created by: Charlie Davies
- Created on: 23-05-14 16:51
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- Case Studies
- Measuring Development
- HDI
- Advantages
- Easily comparable to other countries
- easy and cheap to collect data
- reliable factors
- Political competitiveness
- Disadvantages
- does not take into account war or political oppression
- PPP value changes very quickly, inaccurate or misleading
- Based on normative aconomies
- Does not take into account poverty
- Advantages
- HDI
- LDC
- Sub Saharan Africa
- countries with lowest HDI ranking in the world
- Mali, Sierra Leone and Niger
- many hold backs from development including war, disease, famine, debt
- need large amounts of FDI that will leave in worse situation than started
- countries with lowest HDI ranking in the world
- Sub Saharan Africa
- TNC- Global Shift
- Barbie in Taiwan
- American country first produced in Japan 1959
- global shift of manufacturing, moved to Taiwan in 1960's to take advantage of cheap labour, and increased scale of production
- American country first produced in Japan 1959
- Barbie in Taiwan
- TNC- Global Marketing
- Coca-Cola
- one formula old across the globe
- Coca-Cola
- BRIC Economies
- Brazil
- 2003 out of debt
- Generates $1.5trillion GDP/year
- reliable power with sustainable source such *** hydro power
- FDI is 4th largest in world
- Skilled workforce
- BUT
- destruction of rainforest
- unequal socierty
- 25% population live in favela
- China
- 3rd stage of NIC devlopment
- communist control was relaxed
- FDI was encouraged
- 5 special economic zones
- sustained 10%economic growth
- BUT
- destruction of environment
- dramatic gap between rich and poor
- Chongqing
- heavy industry= pollution problems, 2000tonnesof waste a day
- India
- NIC Driven by services
- Services sector accounts 50% GDP
- attractive to companies because:
- 2nd largest English speaking human resource in world
- good infrastructure for transport and dta communication
- investment and tax incentives
- INFOSYS
- TNC in Bangalore
- Bangalore ICT centre dues to being first state to set up engineering collages// and to set up tech university. Grants and tax incentives for IT industry
- Software company
- 455 workforce in Bangalore
- TNC in Bangalore
- Brazil
- Measuring Development
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