Globalisation Case Studies Flashcards
How many people live in Bangalore
10 mil
Where is Bangalore
India
How many are employed in the IT sector
1 mil
What is Bangalore known as
The electronic city
How many tech companies are based in Bangalore
1,200
What is the primary language in Bangalore
English
Name Three socio-economic impacts of Bangalores technology sector
• Emerging middle class
• House price increase
• Retail led Westernisation
How many lakes use to be in Bangalore and how many are there now?
100 now only 17
What are the roads like in Bangalore
Heavily congested producing high levels of noise and air pollution
Why is the current sanitation situation unsustainable in Bangalore
Water and Sewerage companies can not keep up with
What transport management measures are being put in place in Bangalore
• New airport part funded by both public and private investment
• Toll Roads
• New government funded metro
What is an issue in China?
The relationship between the environment and globalisation
How much land is degregated as result of the environmental impacts of globalisation in China
40%
What was the decline in China of vertebrates
50%
What are some pollution and health issues in China
• Beijing constant pollution alerts
• cancer rates so high there are now whole villages named cancer villages as the rates are so high
What % of lakes are polluted in China
70%
What fraction of water in china is completely unusable
1/4
What is the supply issue with coal and oil in China
Demand outweighs supply
In the 1920s how many people were employed in Leicesters textile industry
30,000
Where were many of the migrant workers from who came to Leicester
India and Pakistan
Why was there large scale de-industrialisation in the 1970s
Offshoring to access cheaper labour and lower tax areas
What has happened to the derelict land in Leicester
It is contaminated by dyes , gas or coal
What happened to the land in Leicester
Was left abandoned
What sort of reputation does Leicester have and how did this occur
Reputation for crime due to mass de-industrialisation and being let go
What does Leicester home now
Poverty stricken ethnic minorities
In 2014 what % of house buyers in central london were foreign
82%
What nationality were most of these London buyers
Qatari and Russian
What is causing property price inflation?
High demand for housing
What does elite migration in London bring
Investments eg in the shard , canary wharf and harrods
What do the UAE and Qatar suffer from
Labour shortages
What % of the UAE workforce is migrant
90
What countries do the migrant workers in the UAE come from
India and Pakistan
What did both the UAE and Qatar undergo?
Rapid industrialisation and building of infrastructure
Why has the UAE and Qatar undergone rapid industrialisation
International tourism
What is a speculation about the labour in the UAE and Qatar
The levels of safety due to high numbers of work place accidents
What has New Delhi experienced
Internal migration
What was the % increase in population of New Delhi between 2010-14
40%
What was large internal migration caused by in New Delhi
Natural increase
Rural -> Urban migration
What is allowing more jobs to be created in new delhi
FDI
What companies have set up HQs in new delhi
Microsoft and Coca-Cola
What commonly happens to rural migrants who move to New Delhi
They end up in slums like Dharvi one of the largest slum in the world
What does large-scale migration do to the cities infrastructure
Put pressure on it
