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Section B: Economic World
The UK
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In
2020
, 80% of workers worked in the
tertiary
industry.
Home to science and business parks
like
Cambridge
Science Park near
Cambridge
university
Celtic Renewables
is a business that tries to make biofuels from the waste products of
whiskey
production
Mainline trains operating on crossrail lines will carry
1500
passengers.
14
out of 15 of the worlds aerospace industries are based in
Bristol
In the
1800s
, we had the primary industry.
Low
skill and pay.
The industrial revolution meant increase of
secondary
jobs.
Margaret Thatcher
closed
coal mines
in the UK in the 1980s, so we moved towards the tertiary industry.
The UK has moved to a
post industrial economy
because there's more money in the
tertiary
industry, which means more taxes
Science park -
quaternary
jobs working
together
Land Rover uses only
recyclable plastic
in their
cars
UK's Main Trading Partners
Australia
, France,
Germany
, Italy, Japan, United States, and China
The north south divide is the economic, cultural and regional differences between the
north
and
south.
There is and 8,000 difference in GNI per capita in the north vs south
The
GNI
in the
North
is £28,
000
and £36,000 in the South
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