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Changing economic world Flashcards

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1
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What is the UK experiencing?

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Deindustrialisation (decline of traditional manufacturing)

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How much has quarternary jobs increased from 1981?

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0-10%

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What negatives does the UK globalising cause?

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Increasing gap between high and low payed and job losses in secondary sector.

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What positives does the UK globalising cause?

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Migration (provides jobs), economic growth, technology increase and makes it the 6th largest manufacturer.

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What does it mean for the UK as it becomes a post industrial economy?

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2 million people work in IT
The finance sector provides 10% of the UK’s GNI

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Describe what the north of the UK is like in terms of development.

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Lots of manufacturing, slow population growth, low house price and lower employment.

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Describe what the south of the UK is like in terms of development.

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less manufacturing, quick population growth, high employment, higher house prices.

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What is local devolution?

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Having a mayor that has more control over how that area is run (e.g Manchester in Nov 2014)

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How much did the government promise to the north?

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£7 billion

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GIve an example of infrastructure investment.

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£280 million in Salford for the BBC to move there (employment grew by 142% as a result)

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What is the life expectancy and unemployment for the North?

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LE: 77.6
U: 5%

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What is the life expectancy and unemployment for the South?

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LE: 80.6
U: 3.2%

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Explain fairtrade

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Supports farmers allowing them to earn a fair price and added premium is used to improve their community

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Explain microfinance loans.

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People who have a low income are loaned money that is used to improve their business that helps the community. Everyone involved is a shareholder

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Who is Muhammad Yunus?

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He created the Gramee Bank and loaned to 1,000 people

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What is debt relief?

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When debts are made more manageable usually for LIC’s from HIC’s

17
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How have Uganda and Guyana been helped by debt relief?

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Uganda has new road networks to improve trading and Guyana can spend an extra 20% on healthcare and now have an NHS

18
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What is aid?

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When others give money or resources to the struggling.

19
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How do water purifiers help the development gap to reduce?

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They reduce sick days, illness and are environmetnally and cheap.

20
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What effect does tourism have and what does this do?

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It creates the multiplier effect which is when one positive causes another positive and so on.

21
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Why is Nigeria economically important?

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  • Biggest economy in Africa
  • Expected to overtake countries such as France by 2050
  • There largest sector on the Demographic Dividend is economically active.
22
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How is Nigeria’s industrial structure changing?

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Their GPD $101 billion to $570 billion and Nollywood is 3rd largest in the world.

23
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How did oil and manufacturing help Nigeria?

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  • Helped it become an NEE
  • It accounts for 14% GPD
24
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What are the physical causes of uneven development?

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Climate(limit food), possession of caostline (trading), natural hazards

25
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What are the economic causes of uneven development?

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Poverty is a cycle, less education and healthcare, exploitation by HIC’s

26
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Why is uneven development bad?

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Racism, inequality, less able to recover from natural disatsers, crime, aid is expenisve.

27
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How many mothers die in Lesotho because of childbirth?

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1 in 45 as they are few medical supplies and workers aren’t highly trained.

28
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What is the limitation of life expectancy?

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Where infant mortality is high it reduces the average, so if people survive this they reach much older than the average suggests

29
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What is the limitation for doctors per person?

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Mobile healthcare is not accounted for

30
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What is the limitation for Literacy rate?

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Surveys are hard to carry out, many people would not admit this.

31
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What is the limitation for access to safe water?

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Quality can change overnight sue to natural distasters for example

32
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What is the limitation for HDI?

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Very few limitations just hard to work out, best measurement.

33
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What is the limitation for GNI per capita?

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Can hide regional differences for example India has a lot of billionairs but majority is in poverty

34
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What is the limitation for Birth rate?

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Doesn’t account for economic factors for example Dubai is developed but is is cultural to have a lot of children

35
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What is the limitation for Death rate?

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HIC’s have a higher death rate as their population can get older

36
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What is the limitation for infant mortality rate?

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Hard to record all infants

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