Going Global Case Studies
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Global Networks
- Show connections between people, flows of money etc.
- £2.6 billion worth of business deals between the UK and China
- China invested into oil refinery protecting 2,000 Scottish jobs
- Agreements between BP and Chinese oil companies to explore deep water oil reservoirs
- Commitment by JLR to sell 40,000 land rovers in China
- A network is an illustration or model that shows how different places are linked
- The points on a network map are called nodes
- Global hub= A well connected node
- Connections are called flows
- Core= The most developed and highly populated region of a country.
- Switched on place= Nations, regions or cities that are strongly connected to other places through the production and consumption of goods and services
- The Wilderness= An area of the planet inhabited by indigenous populations
Colonialism
- Is the building and maintaining of colonies by one territory by people from another territory
Why?
- Profits to be made
- Expand the power
- Convert religion/ missionaries
Technological/ Transport/ Communication advances
EasyJet
- Started in 1995 doing domestic UK flights only
- Connects most of Europe's major cities
- At the start it had just two aircraft
- Luton to Edinburgh One Way= £29
- Started flying to Barcelona in 1996
- Now has 300 flight routes in the EU
- Expanded into non EU markets (Marrakech, Istanbul)
- One of Europe's biggest internet retailers
- Helped places to become more "switched on"
- Opened up connections with the rest of the world
- "Shrunk the world"
- More than 500 million users
- Spreading into China- Globalisation
- Started off at Harvard
Globalisation and Christmas
- Average christmas lunch has travelled 130,000 km
- Not locally sourced anymore
- Dongguan, China, know as Santa's workshop, this is where many xmas presents are made
Switched on Place: China
Nexteer Automotive,the Mid West USofA:
- Chinese government owns 50%.
- Saved 3600 jobs and the whole community
Economic reasons:
- Joined the WTO in 2001
- Receives FDI from TNCs to boost economy
- TNCs invest in China to exploit cheap labour
Physical Reasons:
- Has coal, oil and gas reserves
Human Reasons:
- Urbanisation
- China is now the world's largest consumer
- 1.3 billion population
- Fastly growing markets.
- Export processing zones have been created, stimulating cheap mass manufacturing
Political reasons:
- Relax of communism and rise of capitalism
- Changed its trading policies
Switched off Place: the Gambia
Economic reasons:
- Financial leakages. Money generated by TNCs doesn't stay in their economy
- Tourism accounts for 7.8%
- GNP per Capita : 1995: $320 2005: $290
Physical reasons:
- No confirmed natural resource deposits
- Only small scale manufacturing. E.g. Processing of fish
Human reasons:
- 40% adult literacy
- 75% of population reliant on farming
- 1.7 million population
- One of the 48 LDCs
- 160th highest HDI/ 173
Political reasons:
- Too reliant on aid
- Gained independence from the UK in 1965
Geographical reasons:
- Barely any coastline = no ports
- Smallest country on the African mainland
Egypt unrest:
- Local event affecting the global economy
- Stock markets fell
- Oil supply would be shut off if the Suez canal shut down (Extra 6,000 miles)
- Crude oil reached $100 a barrel for the first time in…
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