Case Study : Nigeria

Question 1

Where is Niger Delta?

Answer 1

Where shell extracts their oil.

Question 2

What is a TNC? Give an example…

Answer 2

Transnational Corporation,

Shell, McDonalds

Question 3

What is one way aid benefits Nigeria?

Answer 3

USA funds to educate society about the danger of HIV and AIDs in Nigeria.
UK provides health-services to rural areas, eg: Health Clinics, immunisation, Gynecology, etc.

Question 4

Opportunities and Challenges of TNCs

Answer 4

Benefits:
Tax, Quality of life, Standards of living,

Negatives:
Crime (stealing oil),

Question 5

What can be a negative impact of TNCs?

Answer 5

Environmental Impact: Oil Spills
Social: Exploitation of workers

Question 6

What is one way aid impedes Nigeria?

Answer 6

Tied Aid: Debt ==> Can’t invest into the country.
May make the countries rely on aid,

Question 7

What are the 2 important tribes we talk about in Nigeria?

Answer 7

Yoruba and Igbo

Question 8

Country’s trading relationship, What is its global importance

Answer 8

Provides food products, resources,

5th largest producer of oil in the world.

TNCs, Shell, Oil

Question 9

Economic Development, evaluate the effects on the population’s quality of life.

Answer 9

TNCs, Good & Bad
Education, Healthcare, Jobs, Tax.

Question 10

Explain the link between TNCs and industrial development of the country.

Answer 10

Shell ==> Job Opportunities ==> Employment ==> Money ==> Infrastructure Investment,

Multiplier effects: One good thing, leading to another good thing.

Good and bad things about shell.