The geography of services

The geography of services

1. Services around the world

   • The groth of the service sector
     • Tertiary sector- activity that provide public and private sevices(shops, museums...)
     • The beggining of 20th century
     • Tertiarisation (post industrial societies)
     • Process
       • Higher incomes- better living standarts (spend more on services)
       • welfare state (Education, helthcare) which it pays for with taxes.
       • New technologies in industry- information design, services...
       • Financial capital markets- banks, insurance companies.