Lesson 10

Question 1

What are the social push (leave) factors of Karachi?

Answer 1

Poverty, literacy, conflict, low income

30%-50% living in informal settlements

Question 2

What are the economic push (leave) factors of Karachi?

Answer 2

Limited opportunities, development funds, lack of resources

Question 3

What are the environmental push (leave) factors of Karachi?

Answer 3

Natural disasters, climate, food consumption reduced by 25% as of climate change

Question 4

What are the social pull (enter) factors of Karachi?

Answer 4

basic services, living conditions, political stability and connections

Question 5

What are the economic pull (enter) factors of Karachi?

Answer 5

opportunities, infrastructure investment, new market

Question 6

What are the environmental pull (enter) factors of Karachi?

Answer 6

Sanitation, land to live on

Question 7

Impacts of rapid urban growth (Social) in Karachi?

Answer 7

Poverty - no room within the city to move in (mega city)

Question 8

Impacts of rapid urban growth (economic) in Karachi?

Answer 8

Economy increases for those who have businesses but those who can barley afford suffer

Question 9

Impacts of rapid urban growth (environmental) in Karachi?

Answer 9

Land suffers as they build more and have urban sprawl. People living within poor areas degrade further.

Question 10

Evidence of low wage migration in the Philippines? (4)

Answer 10

10% of population is working in neatly 200 countries
benefit from government remittance payments - about to reach $10 billion a year
push factors - low FDI, political stability, low wage
can’t develop economically as workers are leaving country

Question 11

Evidence of high migration in Russia? (3)

Answer 11

Special visa’s allow migration from outside EU in exchange for investments
Moscow has attempted to discourage Russians from leaving the country with new rules
1/5 of all investments are from visas

Question 12

Evidence of rural-urban migration into Mumbai?

Answer 12

Foreign investments from TNCs - Jobs created
Technology and transport links - opportunity’s
75% of migrants from rural areas
People living in urban areas because of unemployment-better machinery, less poverty - Services funded by taxes

Question 13

What is low wage migration?

Answer 13

Migration of people with low wages, government benefit from remittance payments (Philippines)

Question 14

What is elite migration?

Answer 14

Migration of richer people (Russians)