UNIT 1 GOING GLOBAL CASE STUDIES
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Malta
- Joined EU in 2004
- Beseiging malta are from africa
- 2006=1,700 illegal migrants arrived by boat
- finds itself on front line on preventing illegal migration into europe
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UK Policy on Immigration
- accept only genuine applicants
- point based system-2008
- worker registration scheme
- business visas
- in 2005/6 2.75 million people applied for visa but 20% refused
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TESCO
- 1919 as a grocery stall in London by Jack Cohen
- 1956= first Tesco self serve supermarket opened in Maldon
- Operates in 12 countries
- Glocalisation= Thailand (wet veg)
- Employs 530,000 people
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Two-Speed India
- By 2040, India is expected to be 2nd largest economy in world
- Becomes attractive sites for TNCS to set up factories
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Dhaka
- Water and Sanitation is poor
- 90% slum dwellers have no security
- buy water at inflated prices
- WATERAID= 6,000 new homes benefitted from 40 water pumps
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London
- Highest population of any urban area in EU- 2005= 7.5 million= 12.5% of UKs pop
- Population has not risen steadily
- Pop is now increasing again
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Chongqing
- 4th largest manicipality
- Key inland port on Yangtzee river= three gorges dam
- contains 4.1 million
- over 1,300 rural urban migrants arrive daily
- £7 million economy daily
- 500,000 pop growth yearly
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Mexico City
- 1995-2000 521,000 illegal immigrants
- 1.4% growth in population per year
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Dangtan
- planning to build sustainable city
- CARBON NEUTRAL HOMES
- RENEWABLE ENERGY
- URBAN TRANSPORT STRATEGIES
- Achievable= no, lacks government support
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Mumbai
- 60% live below poverty line
- huge informal sector
- Dharavi is between railway
- Wages are low
- experiencing hyper urbanisation
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UK's elderly population
- state pension to both men and women over 65
- continued employment
- family support
- tv license free to over 75s
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Eastern European Migration
- 120,000 registered in UK rural areas between 2004-2006 8,100 in Herefordshire
- some are seasonal agricultural workers whose numbers peak in early summer
- Problems: discrimination, high rents, pressure on health system
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Costa Living
- 1.8 million properties in spain owned by foreign around 600,000 of them British
- 60% migrants are over 45 years
- retirees
- prices are lower than UK
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Easyjet
- 1995 by Stelios Haji-Ioannau
- began as small venture running flights within UK
- 300 flight routes in EU
- first online sales=1998
- 95% flights purchased online
- by 2006 it owned 122 airplanes carrying 33 million people
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LDC'S
- 50 states
- least developed countries
- bleak conditions
- lack of engagement with globalising forces
- Sudan, Afganistan
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NIC's
- Newly Industrialised Countries
- middle income nations
- "asian tigers'
- Brazil, Mexico
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EX-Soviet States
- 15
- poorly score in GDP and HDI figures
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EU
- 30
- emerged since WW2
- ensure certain standards of living for people
- encourage free trade without tariffs
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OPEC
- Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- Petrodollar earnings= Saudi Arabia wealthy
- display well above average levels of wealth
- since 1960's many of worlds oil has belonged to this organsation
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OECD
- Organisaiton for Economic Cooperation and Development
- 30 nations
- G7 (G8 russia)
- Germany, UK, France
- High levels of wealth are far more evenly distrubuted
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