Going Global
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- Going Global
- Globalisation
- Growing interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing flows of money, people, goods and information
- Demographic change- economic growth= pop. growth= ^no. of people living in urban areas (internal migration of economic migrants)
- TNCs, transport, computer and internet tech, international org, markets, FDI
- 'shrinking world'- development in c. and t. reduce importance of distance
- 'g. shift'- changing location of production
- Global groupings
- Economic groupings
- LICs/LDCs
- NICs- middle income nations- X and average incomes ^at unprecedented rate
- Ex-Soviet states- break up of SU in 1989, 15 states, M/L income
- OPEC- Saudi- GDP=$350 bil. in 2007 (petrodollar)- unequal distribution
- OEDC- 30 nations, high income, more evenly distributed, good s of l- G8
- Political groupings
- Trade blocs- trade freely, national boundaries crossed by flow of m/g/w
- EU, NAFTA, CARICOM, MERCOSUR, COMESA, ASEN
- Trade blocs- trade freely, national boundaries crossed by flow of m/g/w
- TNCs
- Economic groupings
- Global networks
- Telephones- instantaneous communication- technological 'leap-frogging' to mobile phone use
- Internet- broadband- data/info. travels fast
- Air travel- EasyJet (1995)- 2006, 122 a. 33 mil. people and £2 bil. rev
- GIS- collect/manage/ analyse sat. data
- Switched on- strongly connected through p. and c. of g&s
- Global hubs- presence of n/h resources
- Internal/ international migrants, c. and TNC investment
- Multiplier effect- cumulative causation
- Roots
- Family size
- Pop. structure
- Migration and ethnicity
- Employment
- Social aspirations
- Reasons for changing pop. patterns- phase 1 (before 1970) phase 2 (since 1970)
- DR= (pop. under 16) + (pop.+65)/ (pop. 15-64)
- UK elderly population
- On the move
- Poland- UK
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- World cities
- Global Challenges for the future
- Globalisation
- Growing interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing flows of money, people, goods and information
- TNCs
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