Enquiry Question 3 Flashcards
What is the development gap?
The social and economic disparity between the wealthy and the poor.
What are some single measures of development?
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GNI - Gross National Income
Life Expectancy
What are some composite measures of development?
HDI - Human Development Index
GII - Gender Inequality Index
AT Kearney
KOF Index
How can open borders help diasporas arise from globalisation?
EU citizens are free to move around the EU as a right.
What is the great firewall of China?
It is the censorship of online sites and social media by the Chinese government to attempt to control what the population can view.
How can states legislate against globalisation?
- Limiting free movement into a country
- Block some social media platforms
- Government issued news channels
- Stronger physical borders/hard borders
- Isolationism: American foreign policy
- High tariffs
What does development refer to?
Progress, usually in social (heath, diet, life expectancy, housing quality) and economic (income, wealth) terms.
What is some evidence for the widening income inequality?
In 2016, Oxfam stated that the wealth of the world richest 1% of people is equivalent to the wealth of the other 99%.
What can be used to measure a countries income inequality?
The Gini Coefficient divides income into quintuplets (20% intervals) plotted as a Lorenz curve.
Who are the winners of globalisation?
TNC owners,
Developed/wealthy countries,
The rise of the middle class of factory and call centre workers in Asia,
TNC workers in developed countries with relatively high earning jobs and reasonable job security.
Who are the losers of globalisation?
Isolated rural populations in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa where subsistence farming still dominates and global connections are thin,
Workers in old industrial cities in the developed world have lost jobs,
Sweatshop workers,
Slum dwellers in developing mega-cities.
What is an eco-footprint?
A measure of the resources used by a country, business or person over the course of a year,
Can be used to determine the environmental impact of development and globalisation.
What, in terms of migration, has globalisation caused?
An increase in diasporas: the dispersal of population overseas.
What evidence is there that migration in Europe has increases social and political tensions?
- UK ‘Brexit’ vote 2016 to leave the EU had the scale and pace of immigration as a key area of debate.
- Anti-immigration political parties have been rising in popularity since 2010 (UKIP in the uk, the Front National in France, the Freedom Party of Austria).
- In 2014 51% of Swiss voted in favour of stopping mass immigration in a national referendum.
- Even in the USA, a country of immigrants, the benefits of migration from Mexico and elsewhere have been questioned.
What are some countries who are controlling the spread of globalisation?
North Korea - the internet is banned to prevent people having access to western views and media.
Australia - use the points-based immigration system to match immigration to actual economic needs and job vacancies.
China - The great firewall of China.
