Accelerating globalisation

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Allowing foreign investors to gain a stake in a a privatised national service to reduce costs for the government
Privatisation
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What country is 10% of British Airways owned by?
Qatar
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Which is the surname of the lady that neoliberalism is associated with?
Thatcher
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What is the name of the mobile phone credit card service developed in Kenya?
M Pesa
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Name a type of flow that involves the trade of raw materials and manufactured goods
Commodities
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What is the name for the action in which people in developing countries jump straight to mobile phone use?
Leap frogging
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What is the keyword for 'as travel times fall due to new inventions, different places approach each other in space-time so they feel closer together than in the past'?
Shrinking world effect
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How many passengers did EasyJet serve in 2014?
65 million
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Which airport did EasyJet planes first fly from in 1995?
Luton
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Which ocean were telegraph cables first laid across in the 1860s?
Atlantic
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What was the name of the computer network designed during the 1960s?
ARPANET
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What do farmers check on M Pesa before selling their produce?
Market prices
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Bretton Woods institutions were established to restabilise the world economy and avoid returning to the conditions of the...
Great Depression
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Which country loaned more than US$110 billion to developing countries in 2010?
China
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Are taxes made higher or lower in order to encourage business start-ups?
Lower
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A goal of the WTO is to alleviate ........ ?
Poverty
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What is the name of the type of measure used by the World Bank and IMF which involves cutting government spending
Austerity
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What type of FDI involves building factories in low-wage economies to lower costs?
Offshoring
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In 2010, which American company took over the UK's Cadbury?
Kraft
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Which UK company gained 75 million extra customers when 10 countries joined the EU in 2004?
Tesco
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Free trade is encouraged within a trade bloc by removing internal......?
Tariffs
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Which trade bloc has only three members?
NAFTA
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What piece of clothing did the EU block imports from China in 2006?
Underwear
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What sector of the economy does the EU's CAP help?
Agricultural
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Which country joined the EU in 2013 which raised the EU's number of members to 28?
Croatia
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In which year did Euro notes and coins come into circulation in 12 EU countries?
2002
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What is the name on the agreement in the EU created in 1985 which allows the free movement of people?
Schengen
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Since ASEAN, which of Indonesia's industries have thrived?
Manufacturing
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ASEAN members must pledge to not use which weapons?
Nuclear
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In 2014, China agreed to export more '..........-..........' materials to other countries, in line with a WTO ruling
Rare earth
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Which social network has little/no access to China's market
Facebook
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Who began the 'open door' policy in 1978?
Deng Xiaoping
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Flows of .......... increased from 0.1%-0.25% of global GDP to 0.5%-1.0% of global GDP between 1980 and 2011
Goods
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Flows of .......... decreased from 0.25%-0.5% to 0.1%-0.5% between 2001 and 2011
Services
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Which types of services moved to other services? (hint: Philippines gained a global reputation for this type of service)
Call centres
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ASEAN has a treaty with which country which reduces tariffs on 90% of goods traded between the country and ASEAN?
India
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ASEAN reduced tariffs on 8000 products traded between which country?
China
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Elements of ...........in which trade bloc where the US keep quotas and subsidies on Mexican farmers which decelerates globalisation in Mesxico
Protectionism
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What tripled by 24% in the US since NAFTA between 1993 and 2007?
Employment
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30% worth (€58 bn) of the EU budget is given to which sector of the economy?
Agriculture
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Due to the One Child Policy, what sort of population is an obstacle to China's economic growth(hint: 26.9% of them in the future)
Ageing
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In 2016, was the Chinese Yuan strengthening or weakening? (hint: US$1 = 6.89 yuan)
Weakening
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How many years were given to achieve structural goals in China but couldn't as the Yuan was not strong enough?
Five
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What is expected in China? Inflation is currently 6.5%.
Deflation
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What is one of the programmes that the World Bank lend money for?
Vaccinations
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What sort of leaders do the IMF lend money to?
Corrupt
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US$12 bn was lent to which country by the IMF?
Congo
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Which country did the World Bank eradicate river blindness in?
Niger
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IGOs promote free tarde policies and ...... ?
FDI
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What group of countries announced the NBD as an alternative in 2014?
BRIC
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What word is this the definition for: positive impacts on peripheral regions caused by creation of wealth in core countries
Trickle down
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Which European city has the highest Chinese population since Italy eased restrictions of Chinese textile companies starting business there?
Prato
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90% of India's stores are still owned by who?
Families
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Until 2013, foreign retailers could only gain a presence on India's high streets by agreeing to form what with local Indian businesses?
Partnership
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Since Indonesia became more opened up to FDI since the 1960s thanks to President Suharto, especially for offshoring, which Indonesian city became known as a 'sweat shop' due to its low taxes?
Jakarta
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McDonald's in India is a joint venture between the McDonald's corporation and ...............?
Vikram Bakshi
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What is the name given to branch plants in Mexico where goods are cheaply manufactured?
Maquiladoras
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What is the name for the transport innovation in which 200 million containers are transported per year and can be described as the 'backbone' of the global economy since the 1950s?
Containerisation
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What is the name of the Chinese vessel that is 366m long, 48m wide and can carry 13,000 containers?
Cosco
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What is the name of the aircraft that was invented in the 1960s and has made international travel more common?
Boeing 747
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How long is the Trans-Siberian railway that connected Moscow to China in 1904?
9000 km
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Steam ships allowed ........ and armies to be moved quickly along trade routes into Asia and Africa?
Goods
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Which country became the world's leading power in using steam technology in the 1800s?
Britain
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How many GPS satellite dishes are there 10,000km above the earth?
24
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By a three-mast frigate ship in the 1700s, it would take 2 years to travel across the world. in the 1990s, it would take 31 hours using what sort of jet?
Concorde
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Cultural traits, language and music of another country refers to what sort of globalisation?
Cultural
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in 2012, the South-Korean singer PSY gained 1.8 billion views of his song ........... ?
Gangnam Style
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What globalisation is it when social networks are used to spread messages online, such as Greenpeace about the environment or the militant group ISIS who use it to spread terror online
Political
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Social globalisation can occur via which social network which allows migrants to maintain a strong bond with family they left behind?
Skype
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Which form of globalisation is it when ICT allows managers of distant offices to communicate more easily which helps TNCs to expand into new territories to sell and make more products
Economic
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Where does Facebook store its server farms to recuse costs of cooling?
Lulea
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When were 120 million outbound trips made from China?
2014
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What sort of 'periphery' do budget airlines such as AirAsia provide?
Pleasure
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What sort of attitude do governments have to global flows in general
Pick and mix
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