Winners and Losers of the Global Shift in Economic Activity

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  • Winners and Losers of the Global Shift in Economic Activity
    • Global Shift
      • The international relocation of different types of industrial activity
      • A combination of off-shoring, outsourcing and new business start-ups in emerging economies
      • Dangerous working conditions, child labour and highly unequal pay between men and women
    • Economic, Social and Environmental Change with Globalisation
      • Environment and Resource Pressure
        • Global economic growth has accelerated environmental decline
        • Forested land has been sacrificed to urbanisation, logging and cash cropping
        • Productive crop land has been ruined by over-exploitation, soil erosion or mining
      • Education and Training
        • High school achievement in Singapore and Hong Kong is envied
        • Illiteracy remains an issue in rural India and Bangladesh
        • 2500 universities in China, India and South Korea
        • Asian countries play a leading role in biotechnology and medical science
      • Poverty Reduction and Waged Work
        • I billion people have escaped $1.25-a-day poverty
        • 500 million people have escaped poverty in China
    • What Endangers Citizens
      • Pollution
      • Over-exploitation of resources
      • Dumping of industrial waste
    • Examples of Weak Environmental  Governance
      • China
        • In Dongguan, workers for Wintek were poisoned by the chemicals used to treat the glass for iPhones
        • In Hunan, people were poisoned by a lead-emitting manganese smelter
      • Ivory Coast
        • Tens of thousands of Ivorians became ill when toxic waste that produced hydrogen sulphide
      • Indonesia
        • Land degradation and biodiversity loss are widespread
        • An area of rainforest as big as 100,000 football pitches is lost each year
        • Room is being created for oil-palm plantations and mining operations
        • Forest burning has created smoke pollution
        • More mammal species are threatened than in any other country
    • Challenges of Deindustrialisation
      • High Unemployme-nt
        • Areas affected still haven't replaced the jobs lost
      • Crime
        • In the US gum crime rose
        • Low income areas can have lower life expectancy
        • Drug-related crime has risen
        • Drugs and human trafficking have informally supported the economy of certain areas
      • Depopulation
        • Middle-class people have migrated out
        • Depopulation causes housing prices to collapse
        • Many properties are abandoned
      • Dereliction
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  • Economic, Social and Environmental Change with Globalisation
    • Environment and Resource Pressure
      • Global economic growth has accelerated environmental decline
      • Forested land has been sacrificed to urbanisation, logging and cash cropping
      • Productive crop land has been ruined by over-exploitation, soil erosion or mining
    • Education and Training
      • High school achievement in Singapore and Hong Kong is envied
      • Illiteracy remains an issue in rural India and Bangladesh
      • 2500 universities in China, India and South Korea
      • Asian countries play a leading role in biotechnology and medical science
    • Poverty Reduction and Waged Work
      • I billion people have escaped $1.25-a-day poverty
      • 500 million people have escaped poverty in China
  • Pollution

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