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Define Globalisation

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Widening, deepening and speeding up of interconnevity between countries.

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What does the International Monetary Fund do?

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IMF: Intervenes in situations of financial crisis to provide loans and conditions for restructuring the economy to avoid future crisis.

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What direction are high value manufactured goods moving?

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HICs > LICs

HICs > NICs

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What direction are low value manufactured goods moving?

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NICs > HICs

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What direction are raw materials moving?

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LICs > HICs

LICs > NICs

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What is Primary Product Dependency?

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A country’s entire economy is reliant on the production of one product for exports, usually raw materials.

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Advantages of International Trade

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  • Comparative advantage
  • Economies of Scale
  • Fewer domestic monopolies
  • Purchasing power
  • Multiplier effect (in terms of job creation and increased services)
  • Technology transfer
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Disadvantages of International Trade

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  • Decline of local industries
  • Protectionism
  • Deskilling
  • Exploitative work practices
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What are Economies of Scale?

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Increasing production causes lower cost per unit. Greater profits, lower prices.

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What is Comparative Advantage?

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Countries specialises in producing a good that can be produced more efficiently and at a lower cost than other areas Higher profits.

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Why might specialisation in one product be problematic?

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They will be dependent on supply, which can be finite, and can’t adapt or develop.

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What is Deskilling?

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As goods produced elsewhere, quality and usage of (traditional) knowledge and skills decreases.

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Positive of Primary Product Dependency

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  • Comparative advantage
  • Low upfront investment
  • Attracts FDI
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Negative of Primary Product Dependency (Issues caused by it)

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  • Supplies are finite
  • Resource curse
  • Discourages investment in other areas/ less diversification of manufacturing
  • Volatile prices as supply fluctuates but demand remains the same
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What is Fair Trade?

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Provides a fair price to producer as their is a common minimum price. Includes Fair Trade Premium, which is additional money for investment in Socioeconomic Welfare. Involves a compliance with environmental standards and Human Rights control.

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Positives of Fair Trade

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  • Minimum prices set
  • Social premium
  • Human Rights consideration
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Negative of Fair Trade

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  • Minimum price encourages over supply creating a Fair Trade dependency. Producers prices then fall
  • Fair trade is on primary products so there is no encouragement to diverse.
  • Inefficient > money stys in HICs
  • Farmers in HICs benefit more than LICs
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What are the SIX Barriers to Trade?

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  • Tariffs
  • Quotas
  • Subsidies
  • Import Licensing
  • Voluntary Export Restraint (VER)
  • Embargoes
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What are Tariffs and why are they a barrier to trade?

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Tax on imports. Imports are more expensive therefore people buy domestically. E.g. Smoot-Hawley tariffs 1930 > tit for tat retaliation.

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What are Quotas and why are they a barrier to trade?

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Physical limit of imports. Reduce imports so people buy domestically which increases consumer prices.

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What are Subsidies and why are they a barrier to trade?

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Grants to domestic products and producers to cover the costs. This lowers prices. E.g. US Cotton Subsidies. However, LICs often lose out.

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What is Import Licensing and why is it a barrier to trade?

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License to import. Prevents countries from importing so buy domestically.

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What are Voluntary Export Restraints and why are they a barrier to trade?

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Reduce exports agreement. Very politically based.

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What are Embargoes and why are they a barrier to trade?

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Ban imports of a certain good/ or from a certain country.

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What is the World Trade Organisation?

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WTO: Deals with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near global level. Has 164 members, representing 98% of World trade.

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What are the FOUR WTO rules of trade ?

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  1. Countries promote free trade
  2. Countries cannot give special access to certain countries
  3. Countries should act predictably in their trading
  4. There should be fair competition
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Strengths of the WTO

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  • 164 members. Democratic
  • No major trade disputes
  • 1930s- 65% tariffs. Now 9%
  • Successful introduction of free trade.
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What is Free Trade?

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International trade left to its natural course without the presence of tariffs, quotas or any other restrictions.

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Weaknesses of the WTO

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  • Free Trade means LICs can’t develop infant industries.
  • Can’t protect against TNCs. No developed country has become so without protectionism.
  • Race to the Bottom. To compete they exploit workers to get prices down.
  • There are trade agreements outside the WTO
  • Patents unfair. Prevents LIC developing. Indigenous knowledge.
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What is Ethical Investment?

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Investors make a deliberate choice to invest capital based on the activities of the firm/organisation.

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Strengths of the IMF

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  • Provides loans to countries in need of a bailout. E.g. Iceland $1.6 bln Iceland after eruption
  • 290 members > inclusive
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Weaknesses of the IMF

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  • Conditions attached to loans exacerbate financial problems.
  • Decline of public services as a result of spending cuts
  • Removes political sovereignty
  • Total staff from 185 countries always elect a European director
  • Voting power based on capital contribution
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What is the World Bank?

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WB: Provides loans for developing countries to reduce poverty. Funds a variety of projects either ‘bottom-up’ or ‘top-down’.

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What is a Top-Down project?

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Decision to undertake projects or developments made by a central authority. Little or no consultation with the local people who may be affected.

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What is a Bottom-Up project?

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When local people are consulted and supported in making decisions to undertake projects based on their specific needs.

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Strengths of the WB

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  • Long term investment and development
  • Low interest
  • Promotes private businesses/infrastructure
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Weaknesses of the WB

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  • Top-down > little consideration of local people
  • Conditions may cause more problems
  • Always had an American Director
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What are FOUR Global Institutions?

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  • New Development Bank
  • G 7/8 and G20
  • Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
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New Development Bank

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BRICs countries alternative to Bretton Woods institutions. Increasing swing of political power towards the East.

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G 7/8 and G20

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Since 1975, groups of the World’s most powerful nations met to coordinate responses to shared economic challenges, but the traditional G 7/8 countries are of declining importance

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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

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36 high and middle income countries aiming to improve social and economic well-being across the globe.

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Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

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Cartel of 15 oil-producing countries, global oil dependency gives these countries power on a global scale

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What are Trade Agreements?

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Two or more countries agree on terms that help with trade.

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What are the Trade Blocs?

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Group of countries with a common agreement that promotes and manages trade. Removes barriers between members, while keeping common barriers with non-members.

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FOUR forms of Trade Groupings

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  • Free Trade areas
  • Custom Unions
  • Common Markets
  • Economic Unions
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What are Free Trade Areas?

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Lower barriers to trade between members

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Common Markets

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Free trade of goods, services, people, capital

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Economic Unions

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Shared currency

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THREE examples of Trade Blocs

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  • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
  • NAFTA
  • EU
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What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?

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NAFTA:

  1. It’s an agreement between Mexico, USA and Canada
  2. Responsible for making N. America one of the most active trade regions and accounts for 19% of global exports ad 25% of imports
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Advantages of NAFTA

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  • Has quadruples trade. Three countries trade went from $290 billion to $1.23 trillion from 1993 to 2019
  • Lower tariffs reduced import prices
  • Increased FDI
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Disadvantages of NAFTA

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  • U.S jobs lost
  • Suppression of wages
  • Deteriorated Mexico’s environment
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Positives of Trade Blocs

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  • Larger captive market for businesses
  • Economic growth due to increased trade
  • Economic peaks and troughs are filtered through the group.
  • Increased output > greater employment opportunities
  • Can set higher environmental standards
  • Greater negotiating power
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Negatives of Trade Blocs

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  • Trade diversions as members products are artificially cheaper. Negative impacts on non-members
  • Declining domestic capacity to produce certain food, manufactured goods or services > over-specialisation
  • Spacial division of labour: manufacturing moves to lower costs within the same bloc as manufacturers can still benefit from lower tariffs E.g. factories moving from the US to Mexican Maquiladora along the border
  • Loss of sovereignty/ some financial control (European Central Bank)
  • Trade disputes between blocs E.g. EU & US Estradiol
  • Expensive E.g. EU cost $960 bln approx between 2004-14
  • Issues with shared resources E.g. Scallop wars in the UK
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What are Transnational Corporations?

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TNCs: Companies that produce, sell or are located in two or more countries. On 2013, 80% of global trade was linked to TNCs. They operate in all forms of industry/don’t just originate in HICs anymore.

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Different types of TNC spatial organisation?

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  • Global Supply chain HQ
  • Subsidiary HQ
  • Research and Development
  • Production
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Global Supply Chain HQ in relation to TNC spatial organisation

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Mostly in HIcs. Good Infrastructure. With highly skilled population.

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Subsidiary HQ in relation to TNC spatial organisation

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On other continents to access market. Involves glocalisation.

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Research and Development in relation to TNC Spatial Distribution

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In HICs due to good education.

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Production in relation to TNC Spatial Distribution

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Primary: in NICs/LICs as not overused resources but tech changes
Secondary/Tertiary: In NICs as labour costs are low. Good education and same languages

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How do TNCs promote globalisation?

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  • Spatial organisation
  • Organise production to take advantage of the global supply chain
  • Investment, spreads new techniques and promotes cultures.
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Examples of Global Production Networks

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  • Subtractors (outsourcing)
  • Offshoring
  • Mergers
  • Acquisitions
  • Joint Ventures
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What are Subtractors (Outsourcing)?

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Use of foreign companies to manufacture products without actually owning the businesses. Race to the Bottom. Reputational Risk.

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What is Offshoring?

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TNCs move parts of their own production process to other countries to reduce labour and other costs. E.g. Dyson

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What are Mergers?

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When two companies (usually of the same or similar sizes) agree to become one bigger company. E.g. BP and Amoco

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What are Acquisitions?

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One company buys another. Unequal flows of money.

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What are Joint Ventures?

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Two companies form a partnership to handle business in a particular territory bu without actually merging to become a single entity. Legally binding. E.g Indian Investment Laws. Glocalisation > local businesses know local people.

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Vertical Integration

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Supply chain of a company is owned entirely by that company from raw material to finished product.

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Horizontal Integration

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Company buys other companies at the same level on the supply chain.

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Issues surrounding TNCs

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  1. Tax Avoidance
  2. Horse Meat Scandal
  3. Pakistan & Bangladesh
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Tax Avoidance issue surrounding TNCs

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Companies have found many ways to avoid paying higher tax. They do this by relocating parts of the company countries with looser tax rules (transfer pricing)

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What is Transfer Pricing?

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Buying from other area of the same TNC in lower tax country

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Horse Meat Scandal issue surrounding TNCs

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Traces of horse and pig meat were found in frozen beefburgers. There was a crunch down on government control of food safety. This was hard to track down due to many suppliers and extensive supply chain.

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Pakistan and Bangladesh scandal surrounding TNCs

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Series of fires, usually due to illegal activity, lead to worker deaths both from the fire itself and building collapse.

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THREE risks of interdependence to TNCs

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  • Geopolitical Risks
  • Reputational Risks
  • Physical risks
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Geopolitical Risk of Interdependence to TNCs

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  • Government sanctions (E.g. EU & Russia)
  • Conflict and Political Instability (E.g. Arab spring 2011)
  • Resource Nationalism (E.g. Venezuela-Hugo Chavez
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Reputational Risk of Interdependence to TNCs

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Unethical treatment of worker and environments by outsourcing companies jeopardises TNCs reputations

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Physical Risk of Interdependence to TNCs

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Natural Hazards E.g. Eyjafjallajokull eruption

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what is reshoring?

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TNCs adapt to increasing human and physical risks by building more resilient supply chains and spreading operations less thinly over few countries.

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Example of Reshoring

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Apple: invested $100 million into making some products in the USA

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What direction are Flows of Labour going?

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LIC/NIC > HIC

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What direction are Flows of Capital going?

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Profit repatriation: NIC > HIC

Everything else: HIC > LIC

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What direction are Flows of Ideas going?

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HICs > LICs/NICs

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What direction are Flows of Tech going?

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HIC > LIC/NIC

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What is Interdependence?

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Societies, states and businesses have become mutually dependent on one another due to complex ways global systems have evolved.

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Different types of Economic Interdependence

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  • Trade
  • Technology Advances
  • Employment
  • INternational Economic MIgration
  • TNCs & Investment
  • Supply chains
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Different types of Political Interdependence

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  • IGOs
  • Security & Stability
  • World Peace
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Different types of Social Interdependence

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  • Education
  • Culture (Diaspora)
  • Remittances
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Trade as Economic Interdependence

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Specialisation in comparative advantage. Dependence on primary products that bring profit.

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Technology Advances as Economic Interdependence

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Driven by consumers > TNCs

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International Economic Migration as Economic Interdependence

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20% of total population in 48 countries are migrants > remittances

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IGOs as Political Interdependence

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Relationship between global systems

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World Peace as Political Interdependence

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Golden Arches theory Thomas Friedman.

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Culture as Social Interdependence

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Social ties. Ireland > 70 million claim heritage

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Education as Social Interdependence

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Foreign exchange

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How do HICs have more power in a global system than LICs/NICs?

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  • More likely to be part of a trade bloc

- High value manufactured products > Triadic/intraregional structure

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Positive impacts of TNCs

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  • Generates jobs
  • New tech/infrastructure
  • Multiplier effect (upskilling)
  • Lower costs > more profits
  • Lower price for consumer in country of origin
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Negative impacts of TNCs

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  • Loss of culture
  • Exploitation
  • Pressure on government > low environmental regulations
  • Profit repatriation
  • Reputational risk
  • Structural unemployment
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What is Market Access?

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How easily countries and companies can trade with one another as determined by the extent of export and import barriers.

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Factors affecting access to market

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  • Wealth
  • Inclusion in trade blocs/agreements
  • Unfair trade rules
  • TNCs
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Wealth as a factor affecting Market Access

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Pay higher tariffs/ pay subsidies to your domestic producers limits others access to the market. Investment inside a trade bloc.

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Inclusion in trade blocs/agreements as a factor affecting Market Access

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Larger market share

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TNCs as a factor affecting Market Access

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Can pressurise government to lower barriers

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What is Preferential Trade Agreements?

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Trade pact that reduces tariffs between participating countries for certain products.

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What is Differential/Special Trade Agreements

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Special provisions that give developing countries special rights and gives the ability to treat developing countries more favourably.

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Economic impacts of Poor Market Access

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  • Difficult to establish new industries
  • Dependence on low value primary products and limited access to markets for manufacturing products
  • Not attractive to FDI > Lack of infrastructure development
  • Fewer employment opportunities > 70% of under 25s unemployed
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What is the Paris Agreement?

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2015:

  • Carbon emissions reduction target
  • Aim to reduce net emissions to 0% by 2100
  • Green Climate Fund
  • Track progress in emissions
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Strengths of Paris Agreement

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  • 190 countries pledged
  • Progress track means pledges are strengthened every 5 years
  • Uk aim to get zero emissions by 2050
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Weaknesses of Paris Agreement

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  • Voluntary pledge/ not enforced

- Already 1C increase > reached tipping point

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Positives of Special/Differential Trade Agreements

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  • Boost economies. Development of poorer nations
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Negatives of Special/ Differential Trade Agreements

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  • 10 LDCs are not WTO members and it takes 8-10 years to join
  • HICs aren’t fans > as non-reciprocal so separate agreements needed
  • Some countries removed due to political grounds
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Strengths of the UN

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  • Peacekeeping successes e.g. Kuwait and Iraq
  • Best vehicle for cooperation. Legitimacy to decisions
  • Successful interaction with many poorer UN member countries. G77
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Weaknesses of the UN

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  • Decision paralysis due to veto power in Security Council
  • General assembly can only make recommendations
  • No permanent military of their own > reliant on member states compliance.
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What is Glocalisation?

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Product developed and distributed globally but adjusted to be specific to local consumers

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What is a global shift?

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Movement of manufacturing from developed countries to lower wage economies

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How have changes to financial systems promoted globalisation?

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  • Deregulation of financial markets

- High speed electronic trading systems/ global exchange connectivity

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How have changes to production promoted globalisation?

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  • Global shift/decentralisation of industry from HICs > NICs/LICs
  • FDI for construction of factories from HICs > LICs/NICs
  • Outsourcing/offshoring
  • Global supply chain of TNCs
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How have changing technology promoted globalisation?

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  • Development of the internet (movement of information/capital)
  • High speed electronic trading systems/global exchange connectivity
  • Improvements in travel (increased movement of goods/people)
  • Containerisation
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Argument for importance of changing technology in promoting globalisation

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Containerisation: Reduced transport costs by 70%. Boost trade as transport costs less, likely to cancel out gains from comparative advantage
Internet: global reach/ access to all markets/ increased capital movement/ increased sharing of culture

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Argument against importance of changing technology in promoting globalisation

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Containerisation: concern for re-atmospheric pollution > may need to introduce green taxes on shipping
Internet: LICs still excluded due to high costs of internet infrastructure. Censorship laws also exclude some countries

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Argument for importance of trade blocs in promoting globalisation

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  • Common external tariffs and lower internal barriers > trade within bloc is more competitive and trade increases e.g. after NAFTA exports from USA to Canada and Mexico tripled from $142 million to $452 billion
  • Increase movement of labour
  • Increased negotiating power of members
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Argument against importance of trade blocs in promoting globalisation

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  • Trade diversion e.g. 70% of EU trade is within the EU
  • Trade disputes between blocs
  • Trade blocs can break down and have disputes between themselves
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What is Outsourcing?

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Companies arrange for goods to be produced by other companies usually at lower cost locations

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What are the impacts of outsourcing?

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  • Deindustrialisation of HICs > loss of jobs (UK lost 50& of manufacturing jobs 1983-2003)
  • Structural unemployment
  • Race to the bottom in LICs
  • Exploitative work conditions/ LICs have less stringent environmental laws
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How have unequal flows of labour created inequality?

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  • Brain drain from LICs
  • Conflict between migrants and locals (low skilled migrants often happy to work for less money)
  • Rural urban migration increasing poverty in rural areas
  • Dependence on remittances and lack of alternative income
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How have unequal flows of capital created inequality?

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  • Foreign aid dependency with little development of manufacturing
  • Dependency aid/remittances can cause issues if it stops
  • Aid can fund armed groups/conflict
  • ## FDI can cause conflict between TNCs and local people
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Why do HICs have better market access?

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  • Infrastructure is similar and well-developed
  • High-value products
  • High-market volume - wealthy middle classes
  • Geographical proximity
  • Literacy rate is high and similarly high skill level
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What are social impacts of poor market access?

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  • Less employment opportunities and less disposable income
  • Less money invested in health/education/infrastructure so lower quality of life
  • Often poorly paid work and workers exploited
129
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In what ways have global trade patterns changed since the 1980s?

A
  • Increased by 8x
  • Increase in intra-corporate trade (40%)
  • Developing nations still dominate but emerging economies now challenge G7
  • Trans-pacific trade is now growing faster than trans-atlantic trade
  • Dominated by TNCs (70%)
130
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In what ways have world investment patterns changes since the 1980s?

A
  • Increased ($400 bn in 1996 to $1500 bn in 2016)
  • 1980s HIC > HIC but now increasingly HIC > NIC/LIC
  • Increasing NIC investment in NIC/LIC
131
Q

Positives of Free Trade

A
  • Specialise on comparative advantage
  • Increased access to raw materials/resources
  • Increased economic growth
  • Increased FDI
  • Weaken domestic monopolies
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NEgative of Free Trade

A
  • Widening wage inequality
  • Infant/domestic industries can’t develop
  • LICs may have primary product dependency
  • Westernisation/loss of cultural identity
  • Degradation of natural resources
133
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Who is involved in NAFTA?

A

US, Mexico, Canada

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Who is involved in TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)?

A

USA, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam

135
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Who is involved in TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)?

A

EU/ USA

A2 Geography (17 decks)

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