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
- Environment and Resource Pressure
- 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
- China
- 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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- High Unemployme-nt
- Global Shift
- 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
- Environment and Resource Pressure
- Pollution
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