3.2.1.2 Global Systems

Question 1

What is interdependence?

Answer 1

What happens in one place increasingly has impacts on other places
It’s the theory that nations depend on each other. Most countries are dependent and would struggle without other countries.

Question 2

What are the different forms of interdependency?

Answer 2

Economic
Political
Social
Environmental

Question 4

What is economic interdependence?

Answer 4

Globalisation has led to increased migration mostly for work. Some sectors of Uk depend on Eastern Europe for migrant working.

Question 5

What’s is political interdependence?

Answer 5

Stops political feuds e.g two counties with McDonald’s will never wage war because their economies are linked. Friedman argues

Question 6

What is social interdependence?

Answer 6

Migrant increases means there are social ties between two countries as they are family

Question 7

What’s is environmental interdependence?

Answer 7

All states are environmentally dependent to some extent because of the shared global commons

Question 8

What are the benefits of flows of labour?

Answer 8

Remittances can be sent home from people working in other countries
Economic migrants benefit host country if they pay taxes
Migrants get a better standard of living

Question 9

Give an example of a country which relied too much on remittance?

Answer 9

Somalia

Question 10

How does unequal power relations affect the environment?

Answer 10

Richer emit more CO2
Less likely to agree to treaties for the environment as it will impact their economy
E.g USA withdrew from Paris agreement

Question 11

How does unequal power relations affect global financial institutions?

Answer 11

IMF and the world bank reinforce the unequal powers e.g giving out loans a wrongly
WTO has widened the gap between rich and poor as it has high import duties protection of HIc farming and developing countries are not well presented

Question 12

How does unequal power relations affect trade?

Answer 12

Richer countries control trade-> they get the upper hand and can pressure LICs into more beneficial deals
LICs may lower taxes reduce tariffs and more to encourage investment-> bad impacts on economy
TNCs can influence trade by creating sanctions with other countries

Question 13

What is the World Trade Organisation?

Question 14

The Groundnut- Senegal and the World Bank

Question 15

The Brazilian nut- Bolivia and the EU and WTO

Question 16

The cashew nut- Mozambique and IMF

Question 17

The American Peanut