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1
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How long to reach Australia in 1940 compared to 2024?

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40 days
23 hours

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When did McClean develop containerisation?

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1956

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What % of sea borne trade does containerisation account for?

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60%

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When was the first railway?

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1804

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When was the first mobile phone? Who were the biggest mobile network provider by 2000?

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1973
Vodafone

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How many members has Facebook got?

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2.9 billion monthly users

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When was the KOF index founded? What does it show?

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2002
The higher the score out of 100 the more globalised the country

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When was the KAOPEN index established? What does it show?

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2005
A country’s degree of openness

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9
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Barriers to globalisation

Physical
Political
Economic

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The Sahel
North Korea
Ethiopia

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What % of Ethiopias roads are unpaved?

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85%

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When did China join the World Trade Organisation?

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December 2001

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When did China introduce Special Economic Zones? Name 3

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From 1978
Shenzhen
Shantou
Zhuhai

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How many deaths does air pollution in China cause each year?

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4000

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14
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How many people under the poverty line in India?

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32%

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15
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How many jobs created by Apple’s investment in Hyderabad created?

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4000

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What percent of India’s 2008 GDP was comprised of agriculture?

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17%

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17
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What % of Detroits population were lost in the last 10 years?

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25%

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18
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What fraction of families in Detroit fall below the US poverty level?

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1/3

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19
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In what year did Detroit declare bankruptcy?

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2013

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How many schools in Detroit have closed in the last decade?

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70

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21
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What is the average house price in Detroit?

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$6000

22
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How many rubbish bags are collected daily in Mumbai?

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1 million

23
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How many people per toilet in Dharavi?

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500

24
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How many daily cases of disease in Dharavi?

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4000

25
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What is the population of Dharavi?

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16 million
1 million per square mile

26
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For every Russian who buys a house worth £10 million, how much do they contribute to the economy?

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4.5 million a year

27
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What % of all houses over 5 million £ are bought by Russians?

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20%

28
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How many Russians living in London?

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100,000

29
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European migrants pay what % MORE in taxes than they receive in Benefits?

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34%

30
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What % of people are unemployed in certain rural areas of Poland?

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40%

31
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How many more primary school places are needed to meet demands due to migration?

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130,000

32
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How many cultural groups in Papua New Guinea that have their own language? What proportion of these languages have been erased?

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7000
1/4

33
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At what score on the Air Pollution Index is a state of emergency declared?

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Over 500

34
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In 2013, what did responses to the British Social Attitude Survey demonstrate regarding migration?

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77% of people wanted to reduce immigration

35
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What % of Waste is recycled in the UK compared to in Mumbai?

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20% UK
80% MUMBAI

36
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Why do National Governments support FDI?

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Because the influx of capital can increase economic growth, employment opportunities and tax revenues

37
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What is Privatisation?

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Transferring ownership of a business from the public sector to a private sector

38
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Advantages of Trade Blocs

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  • Stability: 2007, the EU blocked £50 million worth of cheap Chinese goods from reaching the UK to protect domestic companies
  • Free Trade and bigger markets - UK has a population of 65 million, EU has one of 508 million
39
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How many EU countries have Tesco expanded into?

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28

40
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Disadvantages of Trade Blocs

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  • Loss of sovereignty - one of the biggest reasons why the UK left the EU in 2020
  • Compromise and concession - countries must allow foreign firms to gain domestic market shares, sometimes at the expense of local companies
41
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What does the AT Kearney Index show?

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Produces a Global Cities Index which uses measures of business activity, human capital, information exchange and political engagement to rank cities

42
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What industries dominate Mumbai as a result of global shift?

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Finance, nuclear, tech

43
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How long is the average gap between global shift and high FDI return?

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15 years

44
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Pros of global shift (2)

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Reliable wages - $2-3 dollars a day can be triple rural pay

Poverty reduction - 600 million Chinese people lifted out of poverty between 1992-2015

45
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Cons of global shift (3)

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  • Deindustrialised developed countries (Detroit)
  • Unplanned Settlements (Dharavi)
  • Environmental Pressure
46
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Pros of Westernisation - Opportunities for disadvantaged groups

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  • The 1948 British Nationality Act granted former members of the British Empire right to work in the UK (Opportunities for Disadvantaged Groups)
47
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What is the Gini Coefficient?

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A scale between 0 and 1 that measures the degree of inequality. A number of 1 would mean that 1 person held all the wealth

48
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Example of a Transition Town?

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Exeter - an example of localism (prioritising local over global). The Exeter pound was launched in 2015 and encouraged people to shop locally.

49
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What is fair trade?

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Promotes fair terms of trade to benefit farmers and workers. Encourage employers to pay towards a living wage.

50
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What did Exeter Community Energy (ECOE) do first?

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Install 200 kwp of solar panels

51
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What do transition Exeter wish to establish to reduce waste?

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Community composting

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