Globalisation

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Flows of people, ideas, money and goods between countries that make an increasingly complex global web of trade
Globalisation
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The way that the quality of our lives and our wealth in increasingly reliant on what happens in the other countries becasue of what they provide us
Interdependance
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no legal contract, no employment rights, dont pay tax
Informal
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legal contract, employment rights, pay tax
Formal
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raw materials
Primary
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processes raw materials and manufactures goods
secondary
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provides a service instead of making a physical end product
tertiary
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a product that can be bought from many different sources
comodity
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what they grow they eat
subsistance
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a crop grown to make profit
cash crop
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the distance food is transported from its production until it reaches the consumer
food miles
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under sea fibre optic cable
sea-me-we-3
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large organisations that have HQs typically in a MEDC but have many offices, factories and customers spread around the world
transnational corporations
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SEZs
special economic zones
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waste and the energy with it are buried in the ground
landfill
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burning waste to get the energy back
incineration
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energy used to create the materials have been re-used
recycling
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The way that the quality of our lives and our wealth in increasingly reliant on what happens in the other countries becasue of what they provide us

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Interdependance

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no legal contract, no employment rights, dont pay tax

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legal contract, employment rights, pay tax

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Card 5

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raw materials

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