Interdependence

• what percentage of doctors from Kenya migrate after graduation?

  44%
• What percentage of cleaners in the UK are not British?

  44%
• Why did Estonias GDP decrease by 13% in 2009

  dependence on construction jobs in UK after recession.
• Definition of Interdependence


  Interdependence means that when one thing happens in one location, it has an increasing effect on another place.
• How many jobs does the Shenzhen factory provide?

  300,000
• How much does the average iPhone cost to produce in china?

  $190
• Why do large TNC companies outsource their products?

  To make the products more economically accessible to the consumer.
• What TNC is associated with the collapse of the Rana Plaza In Bangladesh?


  Primark
• How many people died in the Rana Plaza collapse?

  1134
• definition of a Trade Bloc?


  Groups of countries in specific regions that manage and promote trade activities.
• What are the main costs of interdependence?

  Exploitation, Tariffs and loss of profits, Environmental degradation, Brain Drain, Race to the Bottom.
• How much is life expectancy in china reduced by due to the 'Airpocolypse'?

  5 years
• Examples of Global Institutions

  -World Trade Organization (WTO)

  -International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  -World Bank

  -United Nations (UN)
• what is the case study for Brain Drain?

  Poland
• What percentage of Africans live in Europe, North America and Asia?

  14% or 3 million
• What are the main benefits of interdependence?

  Labour flows, Remittances, FDI, information flows, TNCs
• Which countries do Qatar and Singapore rely on for migrant labour?

  Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
• How much have Eastern European migrants contributed in taxes to the UK economy? (economic boost)

  £2 billion
• What were global remittances in 2018?

  $600 billion
• What are the 4 forms of interdependence?

  social, political, economic and environmental
• what does the Lorenz curve show?

  the degree of income inequality

  
• How many chines people have been lifted out of poverty since 1981?

  500 million
• If in 1990 there was 36% of the world living in absolute poverty, what percentage was recorded in 2015?

  10%
• What do patent rights do?

  They protect the interest of a TNC which make the LIC suffer.
• Core-Periphery Model


  A model of the spatial structure of development in which underdeveloped countries are defined by their dependence on a developed core region.

  
• What do countries depend on each other for?

  energy sources, food, money
• Example of energy dependence?

  Russia/Europe - oil and gas
• Labour force interdependence example?

  Qatar and India
• How many people died when making the World Cup stadium?

  6500
• Who is the USA's biggest trading partner?

  China
• How many people does Foxconn have on its payroll?

  1.3 million
• what percentage of construction workers in the UAE are migrant workers?

  80%
• What is the relationship like between the USA and china?

  hostile, reluctant
• what is the trade war over in USA and China?

  Trade deficit
• How much of Chinas Product is imported by USA?

  $500 billion
• How much of USA s product is brought by china?

  $100 billion
• what have the USA and China done to make a trade war?

  increase of tariffs and sanctions
• How much tariffs did trump threaten china?

  $325 billion
• why is there a trade war between USA and China?

  competition to be the economic powerhouse of the world
• what does FDI stand for?

  foreign direct investment