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1
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How many people live in Bangalore

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10 mil

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Where is Bangalore

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India

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How many are employed in the IT sector

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1 mil

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What is Bangalore known as

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The electronic city

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5
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How many tech companies are based in Bangalore

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1,200

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What is the primary language in Bangalore

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English

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Name Three socio-economic impacts of Bangalores technology sector

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• Emerging middle class
• House price increase
• Retail led Westernisation

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How many lakes use to be in Bangalore and how many are there now?

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100 now only 17

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9
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What are the roads like in Bangalore

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Heavily congested producing high levels of noise and air pollution

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Why is the current sanitation situation unsustainable in Bangalore

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Water and Sewerage companies can not keep up with

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What transport management measures are being put in place in Bangalore

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• New airport part funded by both public and private investment
• Toll Roads
• New government funded metro

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What is an issue in China?

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The relationship between the environment and globalisation

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How much land is degregated as result of the environmental impacts of globalisation in China

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40%

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14
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What was the decline in China of vertebrates

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50%

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What are some pollution and health issues in China

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• Beijing constant pollution alerts
• cancer rates so high there are now whole villages named cancer villages as the rates are so high

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16
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What % of lakes are polluted in China

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70%

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17
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What fraction of water in china is completely unusable

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1/4

18
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What is the supply issue with coal and oil in China

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Demand outweighs supply

19
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In the 1920s how many people were employed in Leicesters textile industry

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30,000

20
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Where were many of the migrant workers from who came to Leicester

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India and Pakistan

21
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Why was there large scale de-industrialisation in the 1970s

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Offshoring to access cheaper labour and lower tax areas

22
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What has happened to the derelict land in Leicester

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It is contaminated by dyes , gas or coal

23
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What happened to the land in Leicester

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Was left abandoned

24
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What sort of reputation does Leicester have and how did this occur

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Reputation for crime due to mass de-industrialisation and being let go

25
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What does Leicester home now

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Poverty stricken ethnic minorities

26
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In 2014 what % of house buyers in central london were foreign

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82%

27
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What nationality were most of these London buyers

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Qatari and Russian

28
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What is causing property price inflation?

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High demand for housing

29
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What does elite migration in London bring

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Investments eg in the shard , canary wharf and harrods

30
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What do the UAE and Qatar suffer from

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Labour shortages

31
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What % of the UAE workforce is migrant

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90

32
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What countries do the migrant workers in the UAE come from

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India and Pakistan

33
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What did both the UAE and Qatar undergo?

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Rapid industrialisation and building of infrastructure

34
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Why has the UAE and Qatar undergone rapid industrialisation

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International tourism

35
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What is a speculation about the labour in the UAE and Qatar

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The levels of safety due to high numbers of work place accidents

36
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What has New Delhi experienced

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Internal migration

37
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What was the % increase in population of New Delhi between 2010-14

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40%

38
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What was large internal migration caused by in New Delhi

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Natural increase
Rural -> Urban migration

39
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What is allowing more jobs to be created in new delhi

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FDI

40
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What companies have set up HQs in new delhi

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Microsoft and Coca-Cola

41
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What commonly happens to rural migrants who move to New Delhi

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They end up in slums like Dharvi one of the largest slum in the world

42
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What does large-scale migration do to the cities infrastructure

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Put pressure on it

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