GLOBALISATION 3

MEGACITIES

1990 = 10 megacities

2030= 41 megacities

growing rapidly

rural to uban migration

higher birth then death rate

psh factors

lack of education

lack of access to health care

lack of acces to clean water and sanitation

pull factor

better employment opportunity

better healthcare available in the city

better quality of life

problem

envriment and social problems

shortage of resources housing and services

unplanned setterlment

increase in poverty

karachi pakistan

50% = slums and unplanned settlemts

water shortages = water stressed, lack of infastrucure, leaks in systsme, unclean water

tac avoidance- infommal sector dont pay taxed

growing at a 5% rate

mumbai india

move rural to urban for higher wages

unplanned settlements = large slums, infomal employments, little basic services. no sanitation

air pollution - environmental problem due to rapid growth

4th most poluted megacity in the world

ELITE MIGRATION

wealthy migrants

invest in other countries and bring captial

advantage to host country

boost fdi

increases interdepence between regins

russian oligarts

invest in london

increase interdependence

more investment flows between countries

highly skilled eg doctor

can fill skill gap

source country loses out

eg move to uk to work gor nhs

central london property deals = 82% involve forighn byers

LOW WAGE MIGRATION

host benifits from cheap labour

source country benifits in remmitice sent back to family

source neg = less low wage workers ad skill gap

interdependece between source and host country

INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN COUNTRIES

recession knock onn impact in other countrys

reminitance - source dependent on host country

SOURCE AND HOST

HOST

large migratin = stain on services

argue this in the uk theres too much straign on services

increase in workers willing to work for lower ages

rebalance pop

increase in tax payers

source

brain drain

remenitinace sent home

TAX

independent in each country

irland = low taxes

tax avoidance

monaco = no income tax

GLOBAL CULTURE

system of sharing meaning

tradition language values religion anf lesisure

cultral diffusion

sreading of one culture into anouther

resut og globalsiation through tnc

some see it as a threat to thre culture

eg lose tribal life style in papa new guisnea

migration and cultural diffusion

people move and bring there culture with them

eg rise of chinease cruzine in uk

toursim and culture diffsion

exposed to culturw

see fashion and food and way of life

TNC and cultral diffusion

increase fdi in other countries

westen cuture is increasingly spreading

eg disney and netflix

SPREAD OF WEST

china

growing middle class

starting to match western world

increase demand for meat

envrionemtal impacts of deforisation for cattle ramch

food

beef and lanb = emmision intensove food

chinabecan worlds biggest market for processed food

disadvantaged groups

paraolympic move,ent

global acceptance of people with disabilities

new opportunites

london paraolympics = first to sell out

CULTRAL EROSION

lost tradtion

change to natural and built envrionment

lloss of languages food and music and clothing

damaged natural envrionemtn

care lessfor ecosystem due to rising demands

more tncs move = more west ideas

changes in attitude - exploi local ecosystem

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

deforstiation = loss of habitats and laguages

moving to cities and stop usig traditional language

7000 different cultral groups

1 in 4 laguages at risk of being lost forvever

giving up traditional clothing as toursts introduct western fashion

OPOSITION TO GLOBALISAION

anti golbasition = compain agaist neg inpacts

agaist tncs = tax avidence tactics

agaist child labour -

environmental issues

guyana

indiginous lost languages

loss of cutral tradtions

ashimed of heritage

more western lifestyle now

pollution and defoistation of illegal mining

australia

aborignal lost in exchange for west culture

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