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Gloabalisation EQ3 Flashcards

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What does development mean?

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Standard of living + quality of life has economic, social and environmental indicators

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What is a single measure of development?

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1 particular indicator of development

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What are composite measures of development?

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Combines a variety of indicators into 1 score
Eg HDI

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What is GDP?

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Gross national product
Refers to market value of all finished goods and services produced by a country

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What is the economic sector balance?

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Measures proportion of economic output from each sector of industry

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What is GNI?

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Gross national income
Takes into account country’s GDP and income earned abroad

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What is purchasing power parity?

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Measure price of specific goods in different countries and compare power of different currencies

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What is the HDI?

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Measure combining life expectancy, education and per capita income indicators

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What is the GDI?

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Gender inequality index
Measure providing insights to gender inequality in health empowerment and labour markets

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What is the Gini Coefficient?

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Measure increasingly inequalities within countries with values between 0-100
100 mean high income equality

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What is the Lorenzo curve?

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How much inequality exists in a situation

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What are winners and losers?

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Worlds richest 1% own 50% of the worlds money by 2039 will be 2/3
Winners china
Losers sub Saharan Africa

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What are the tensions over globalisation?

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Migration
Culture/ideology
Resources/territory
Environment

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Why are there tensions about migration?

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Free movement supposed to benefit but caused tensions over social, ecomomic and cultural changes
BREXIT

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Why are there tensions about the environment?

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Damage the environment beyond repair
Priests against Shell in Nigeria

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Why are there tensions about culture/ideology?

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Censorship
Opposing beliefs blocked
China’s great firewall

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Why are there tensions over resources/territory?

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Supply of water with making of dams
Greater demand of resources

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What is censorship?

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Control of what is shown in a country

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What is trade protectionism?

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Gov policies and actions taken to restrict or limit international trade in order to protect domestic industries from foreign competition

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What is limited immigration?

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Control of who moves into the country wall between USA and Mexico

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What is maintaining cultural identity?

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Through combination of language, traditions, festivals, food and community organisations

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What are local situations to globalisation?

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Recycling
Local food sources
Biodiversity habitats
Community energy
Sustainable transport
Cleaning the environment

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What is localism?

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Decisions made locally encouraging sufficiency on a local scale to respond to global challenges

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What are transition towns?

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Community grass roots project aiming to increase self sufficiency and reduce fossil fuels such as affordable housing

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What is a donught economy?

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Meeting the needs of the people working the needs of the planet
Can’t go too far either way
Organising a society together not seperatly
Tried in Amsterdam

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What are the ethical issues?

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Fair trade farmers still use pesticides
11% of fairtrade products and label can be used

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Examples of localism?

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Incredible edibles
Whalley

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What did whalley do?

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Use hydroelectric power from river Calder
Locals invest in schemes creating energy to local homes and businesses
Reduced 280 tonnes of carbon emissions

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What is incredible edible?

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Local food growing that anyone can have
Todmorden started other places copied

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