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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