Globalisation
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- Created on: 17-05-18 13:45
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- Globalisation
- Connections are
- Lengthening - new links between places that are greater distances apart
- Faster - to talk, travel on and between continents
- Deepening -more peoples lives are connected with far away places - not just rich people living globally
- 19th Century start 20th Century accelerated, 21st Century RAPID development
- Transport, Trade and Technology
- Economic, Cultural, Political, Demographic
- Transport, Trade and Technology
- Organisations
- The World Bank
- Fincances economic development
- International Monetary Fund
- Lends money fro economic development
- The World Trade Organisation
- believes in free trade without tariffs and subsidies
- The World Bank
- Promoting free trade blocks - National governments, EU, ASEAN, NAFTA
- China Open Door Policy, allowing trade between the western world and China, 'Special Economic Zones' with tax incentives
- KOF INDEX - Economic, Social, Political Indicators are ranked on interactions
- AT Kearney Index, Political Engagement, Technological Connectivity, Personal Contact, Economic Integration
- TNC's
- Off Shoring - does work overseas
- Outsourcing - work is contracted to another company
- Glocalisation - the localisation of globalised products (McDonalds)
- Switched Off regions - Sahel and N Korea
- Gini Index, shown by the Lorenz Curve = Inequality
- China and N Korea, stop spread of globalisation by censor ship. UK and Japan Limit Immigration
- Canada 6/21 proposed research projects closed due to native peoples protests Cultural Identity
- Transition Towns - want to be more sustainable (Bristol Pound)
- Connections are
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