Case Study Quickfire Flashcards
Nike
• est value 137 billion
• operates in over 140 countries
• 40,000 jobs
Ghana, fairtrade
• SA, N Atlantic Ocean
• 2.5 million rely on growing cocoa
• 90% in small holdings
• 45% profit farmers
Cancun Mexico
• peninsula, E
• 97 million tourists 2019= 4th most visited place in the world
• 5.6 million Mexicans directly employed
Malawi vs Vietnam
Malawi
• 84% employed in labour
• 85% export earnings
• 90% exported to UK and South Africa
Vietnam
• 1986 communist
• 2002-2018, 45 million out of poverty
The Gambia
• West Africa
• Poorest 25% counties
• 75% in agriculture
Malawi and Jpn aid
• landlocked
• 53% in poverty
Colorado river
• 2334 km long
• California use 26%
• Colorado use 24%
• Nevada use 2%
• 1% reaches Mexico
• 70,000 people visit hoover dam per year
Lesotho
•40% water goes to Africa
• 1000 MW hydroelectric power
• 20,000 jobs
• borrowed 30 million
WaterAid Mawali
34 countries
India over abstraction of groundwater
• 65% is used in agriculture
• 85% used domestically
Regional inequality India
• 119 billionaires whilst 175 million live in poverty
• Bihar 85% live in rural and av income per capita= £500 p. a
34% in poverty
• Maharashtra av income per capita= £200 p. a
17% in poverty
North South divide
• south east and London funding and development 53% government funding 2018
• 40% more likely to get top gcse grades
• 2020 unemployment: 6.6% N, 3.3% S
• house prices 2018, London 5x as expensive
• Sheffield life expectancy= 78/82, London is 83/87
North South divide fix
• Manchester mayor given £1 billion
Sheffield
• since 1970s, 100,000 lost jobs
Tackling of child labour
• convention 138 on minimum age for employment
• 22,000 child die early per year due to child labour
