globalisation facts

Question 1

positives of globalisation

Answer 1

• FDI allows average incomes to increase especially in lic’s-500 million have escaped poverty in china
• trading blocs flows for more benefits to people- ASEAN (southeast asian) could cause 65 % of the 600 million population to be in middle class
• apple has 25 stores in china-400,000 employees earning $150 to $200 a month(above minimum wage)

Question 2

negatives of globalisation

Answer 2

• workers in china earn $1.63hr whereas in use they earn $22 an hour
• more injustices like poor working conditions-2013 a factory killed 1132 people due to poor working conditions
• interdependence-uk gets 9% of oil from Russia-prices increased to 151.6p per litre in march due to invasion over Ukraine

Question 3

UN POSITIVES

Answer 3

• growth=UN millennium development goals et up to reduce global problems like hunger and disease- helped lift more than 1 billion people out of extreme poverty
• stability=UN peacekeeping help solve conflict eg Côte d’Ivoire deployed 6000 peacekeeper

Question 4

UN negatives

Answer 4

-UN have been ineffective at stopping conflict eg Rwandan civil war had 800,000 people murdered and UN couldn’t intervene with the violence