Global Systems

• Costs of Greater Interdependence - Unequal Flows:

  • Unequal flows of people, money, ideas and technology within global systems can promote stability, growth and development leading to inequalities, conflicts and injustices for people and places.
• Unequal flows - People:

  • Rural to Urban migration from one LEDC to another.
  • 'Brain Drain' - The emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a country.
• Unequal flows - Money:

  • FDI is unequal and not to all countries.
  • Repatriation of profits - sending foreign‐earned profits or financial assets back to the companies home country
• Unequal flows - Ideas:

  • From the 'West' to the 'East'.
• Unequal flows - Tech:

  • From MEDCs to LEDCs
• Costs of Greater Interdependence - Rural to Urban Migration:

  • Typically economic migrants and economically active people.
  • Older people left behind.
  • Agricultural industries leaving due to a lack of people to run them.