Outline the significant developments in transport that took place during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Steam power, railways, jet aircraft, motor vehicles, container shipping.
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What does ICT stand for?
Information Communications Technology.
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Name THREE ICT innovations that are important today.
Internet, mobile phones and broadband.
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Name THREE international organisations that have actively promoted globalisation by encouraging free trade and foreign investment.
World Trade Organisation, International Monetary Fund, European Union.
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Identify FOUR different types of foreign investment.
Offshoring, foreign mergers, foreign acquistions and transfer pricing.
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Suggest ways in which national governments can help to promote globalisation.
Free market liberalisation, loans/grants given to small businessses and privatisation.
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Outline the aims and achievements of ASEAN.
Free trade between 10 member countries - a mix of high-income and emerging economies. Its aim is to create a single market with free movement of labour and capital, plus to promote regional peace and security.
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When did China's open door policy begin?
1978.
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How have changing government attitudes outside Europe and North America contributed to the recent acceleration in the rate of globalisation.
Asia's three most populated countries have all embraced global markets as a means of achieving economic development. Many countries in Africa, the Middle East and South America have introduced reforms that all encourage FDI.
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Give reasons why it is difficult to measure the distribution of globalisation.
It is a multi-faceated process and the relevance of these facets vary from country to country.
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Why should the effects of globalisation be spatially uneven?
because of the impact of other factors: spatial variations in the level of development, availability of resources, accessibility, labour costs and skills and government policies.
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What is a gloabl production network?
A chain of connected suppliers of parts and mateirals that contribute to the manufacture or assembly of consumer goods.
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Explain how TNCs contirbute to globalisation.
Setting up production networks and chains; glocalisation; they generate global global trade.
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What is meant by the term glocalisation?
Changing the design of globally available products to suit local tastes or laws.
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With the help of examples, explain why some countries are 'switched off'.
The reasons may be physical, political, economic and environmental.
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State the purpose of the KOF index.
It is an international measurre of the degree to which individual countries are globalised.
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