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Question 1

What is GNI ?

Answer 1

Gross national income - is the value of goods and and services earned by a country. This shows how developed a country is.

Question 2

When measuring economic development why do we use per capita ?

Answer 2

Shows data average per person

Question 3

When measuring economic development why do we use purchasing power parity ?

Answer 3

Relates average earnings to local prices and what they will buy. This is the spending power within a country, and reflects the local cost of living

Question 4

What is economic sector balance and why does it change as a country develops?

Answer 4

The economic sect balance is the percentage of contribution of primary,secondary and tertiary sectors to GNI.

As a country develops manufacturing industries, the value of their primary sector output falls and the value of their secondary sector rises

Question 5

What is Hdi ?

Answer 5

human development index and was devised by the UN to provide a measure of life expectancy,education and gdp for every country

Question 6

How is Hdi measured ?

Answer 6

By linking GDP to education and health, the Hdi shows how far people are benefiting from economic growth. It uses these indicators- life expectancy, education,gdp

Question 7

Why does the environment decline as countries develop to emerging?

Answer 7

Because emerging countries exploit there gas and fuel for money to increase there wealth.

Question 8

Research suggests that as a country reaches a high level of development pollution levels start to decline

Answer 8

The research suggests this because countries once developed can look into more sustainable ways to get energy

Question 9

Why is London described as a melting point ?

Answer 9

So many different people, with different backgrounds and cultures from their original homeland

Question 10

How has open borders led to a melting pot?

Answer 10

Anyone can move into a country this leads to a range of cultures

Question 11

How has freedom to invest in businesses or transfer capital led to a melting point?

Answer 11

Individuals are free to invest,without Barriers, there are no restrictions for financial institutions in setting up offices and no government approval is required

Question 12

How has fdi led to a melting pot ?

Answer 12

The Uk attracted over 32,000 jobs from overseas owned companies.

Question 13

What is a diaspora

Answer 13

The dispersion or spread of a group of people from their original homeland

Question 14

How is china involved in the trans-boundary water conflict in south east Asia ?(the Mekong Delta)

Answer 14

China owns half the length of the Mekong. The upper basin is mountainous, but the southern part is one of china’s poorest regions. Damming the river to generate hydroelectric power would encourage economic development there.

Question 15

How is Myanmar involved in the trans-boundary water conflict in south east Asia (the Mekong Delta)?

Answer 15

Myanmar - is the country least affected by the current Mekong proposals. It contains several tributaries of the Mekong, but none of them would be affected by the existing dam proposals. It has no plans to build any dams of its own yet, but any such plans would affect the water flow in downstream countries

Question 16

How is Thailand involved in the trans boundary water conflict in south east Asia(the Mekong Delta) ?

Answer 16

Thailand - Only 36% of Thailand’s territory is within the Mekong basin, but Thailand would like the water and electricity generated by the dams for industrial development

Question 17

• how has Vietnam involved in the trans-boundary water conflict in south east Asia(the Mekong Delta) ?*

Answer 17

Thailand - Only 36% of Thailand’s territory is within the Mekong basin, but Thailand would like the water and electricity generated by the dams for industrial development

Question 18

How is Cambodia involved in the trans-boundary water conflict in south east Asia(the Mekong Delta)?

Answer 18

Cambodia - nearly all of Cambodia is within the Mekong basin. It depends on the river for the crucial annual flooding of its rice-growing area. It’s lack of reliable energy sources has led to the depletion of its forests for firewood.

Question 19

How is Laos involved in the trans boundary water conflict in south east Asia(the Mekong Delta) ?

Answer 19

Laos - is one of the worlds poorest countries, and 90% of its population depends on the Mekong for agriculture. Most water comes from tributaries within Laos

Question 20

How has globalisation created a global conscience

Answer 20

Global broadcasting and 24 hour news coverage is making us more aware of other global issues and events. For example bbc having a world section on there website

Question 21

What is an ecological footprint

Answer 21

Is a measure of the area needed to support a population’s lifestyle

Question 22

How has globalisation increase carbon footprint ?

Answer 22

Globalisation has led to more fast fashion and is increasing ecological footprints.

Question 23

Define localism and explain why it may be favoured in some areas ?

Answer 23

preference for one’s own area or region it’s favoured because it improves the local area

Question 24

3.7c+ 3.8b+c+ 3.9

Question 25

Why does the environment decline as countries develop to emerging?

Answer 25

The transformation of land surface to productive agricultural land has led to habitat loss and biodiversity falls on a continental scale.

The negative impact of agribusinesses
operate in the world’s poorest countries
such as east African and southern Asia
and cause a great deal of problems due
to intensive cash-cropping, cattle
ranching and aquaculture which have a
negative effect to the ground water
stores and remove of mangrove forests
which increases susceptibility to coastal
flooding.

Question 26

Globalisation has created winners and losers -economically

Explain ?

Answer 26

Average income has risen in all continents (slowly in sub Saharan Africa)

The great gains made by European and N American nations over the same time has resulted
in a widening of the average income gap between people living in the world’s wealthiest and poorest countries. Absolute Poverty (less than $1.25 a day)
has fallen worldwide

Many countries have advance from low-income to middle income status since the 1970s

Here majority of people are better off than previous generations in real terms, but in relation to the richest in the country, they are getting poorer

Question 27

How has industrialisation affected china ?

Answer 27

The Chinese people have been used to provide cheap labour pool.

And many Chinese workers are not much better off than they were before industrialisation.

Question 28

Is income in china spread equally?

Answer 28

No there is an east west divide in china. As incomes decline further west

Almost all major cities and industrial zones are located on the coast. ( other sides of each other)

Question 29

What is purchasing power parity ?

Answer 29

The rate at which the currency of one country would have to be converted into that of another country to buy the same amount of goods and services in each country

Question 30

What is the gini coefficient?

Answer 30

number between zero and one (or sometimes 100) that measures the
degree of inequality in the distribution of income within a country. The coefficient would
be 0 for a society in which every member had exactly the same amount of money. A high
score of 1 (or 100) would mean that one person got all the money!

Question 31

Why has immigration become a controversial issue ?

Answer 31

Some local people worry that young migrants have increased the birth rate beyond the capacity of the areas schools.

Question 32

As a result of immigration has there been an increase in tensions ?

Answer 32

Poor behaviour from young ‘brits’ has some times strained cultural relations with indigenous communities

Question 33

What are some of the attempts to control globalisation ?

Answer 33

Censorship and limiting immigration

Question 34

What is censorship and an example of it ? And why it might not always work ?

Answer 34

the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

China has state controlled new where print publishing or broadcasting via tv or radio is run by official state media

Also has state monitored - where overseas contracts or media are monitored and censored,including tv, print media, radio film, theatre, text messaging,video games, literature and the internet

Question 35

What is limiting immigration and example of it ? And why it may not always work ?

Answer 35

Donald trump during the 2016 us presidential election campaign or control the flow of immigrants from Mexico by building a high wall right along the us Mexican border

One argument is the cheap migrant labour undercuts local wages and governments have not planned adequately for the increased demands on welfare, healthcare,housing and education caused by the influx of migrants

Question 36

What is the First Nations in Canada?

Answer 36

Canada is home to six groups of indigenous people known as the First Nations

Question 37

Explain the First Nations case study?

Answer 37

Some First Nation people are opposing the attempts of global oil companies to ‘switch on’ their region.

Other First Nation people of already experienced some negative impacts of globalisation as over 200 million barrels of conventional oil has been extracted since 1920.additionally they have had much of their land taken away from them during colonial rule that was never returned

Some of the negatives like the death of trout and other fish in oil-polluted lakes

Some TNC’s are now assessing the potential of the extraction of shale oil.

Question 38

What is an ecological footprint?

Answer 38

Is a measure of the area needed to support a population’s lifestyle

Question 39

How has globalisation increased ecological footprint?

Answer 39

Globalisation has led to more fast fashion and is increasing ecological footprints.

Question 40

what are the environmental and ethical issues resulting from globalisation?

Answer 40

Environmentally issues resulting in globalisation is using non renewable resources

Ethical issues the people mass producing the products in these sweat shops with low healthcare

Question 41

What is localism and why might it be favoured in some areas ?

Answer 41

preference for one’s own area or region it’s favoured because it improves the local area

Question 42

What is fair trade ?

Answer 42

The wto policy of trade liberalisation pitches small business against much larger rivals and can mean factory workers receive small shares of a products value.

Question 43

What is an advantage of fair trade ?

Answer 43

Fair trade aims to return a bigger proportion of the revenue to producers or growers. It’s an independent not for profit organisation, which certifies products by issuesinf the fair trade make as a guarantee

Question 44

What is a disadvantage of fair trade ?

Answer 44

They don’t give the fair trade certified at a high percentage

Might have to pay a higher price to consumers

Question 45

What is an example of fair trade ?

Answer 45

In Peru only 8.5 % of their coffee was fairstrade certified. In 2015 ethical consumer gave coffee retailers scores out of 20 for using products such as fair trade. The marks received were generally not high