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Going Global key studies
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- 1Human resourcesthe abilities and potential of the human population in terms of their education levels,skills,language
- 2Clobal Huba settlement providing a focal point for activities that have a global influence
- 3Export processing zonea small industrial area often on the coast where favourable conditions are created to attract foreign TNCs.(low tax)
- 4Cumulative causationa model that explainss why wealth becomes concentrated in certain places
- 5Clustera geographically concentrated group of connected industries and institutions(firms,supplier,agencies)
- 6CoreThe most developed and highly populated region of a country (growth of core-flow of labour from LEDCs)
- 7Switched-on placesnations,regions,cities that are strongly connected to other places through the production and consumption of goods and services.
- 8Wildernessan area of the planet that has remained relatevely untouched by a human activity (Antarctica)
- 9Shrinking worlddue to technology distant places start to feel closer and take less time to reach
- 10Spatial devison of labourthe common practice among large firms of moving low-skilled work abroad to places where labour costs are low(research)
- 11Assembly industriesManufacturing operations that take the products of many different industries and fit them together to make finihsed good
- 12Transnational corporationA company that has operations in more than one industry
- 13Branch PlantA factory built in a counrty by a TNC whuch has its headquarters elsewhere
- 14Consumptionthe purchase and use of commodities(both goods and food) as well as services
- 15Glocalisationthe local sourcing of parts by TNCs in places where they assemble their global products close to markets
- 16Parent companythe original business that a global TNC has developed around and directors still make decisions that effect the organisation as a whole(Walt Disney)
- 17Tertiary Sector(service sector)consists of businesses taht produce no physical product instead they sell the product of manufacturing (education,tourism)
- 18Minimum wagean hourly wage set by a nations government that all companies must pay to their employees.
- 19Birth RateThe number of births per 1,000 people per year in a region (fertility)
- 20Death RateThe number of deaths per 1,000 people per yaer in a region(mortality)
- 21Economic MigrantA migrant whose primary motivation is to seek employment.(migrants who already have a job-looking to a better pay or change in career)
- 22Internal MigrationThe movement of people between different regions within the same nation.(poor nations moved from countryside to the cities)
- 23Intervening obstacleBarrier to a migrant such as a political border or physical feature(Africa-Europe)(Obstacles--family pressure and travel cost)
- 24Intervening opportunityAn alternative migration destination that exists between the migrants place of origin and intended destination
- 25Natural IncreaseThe difference between the birth rate and the death rate usually showed as a %.
- 26Natural Decreasedeath rate exceed bith rate
- 27TNC (transnational corporations)are firms with operations spread across the world,operating in many nations as both makers and sellers of goods and services
- 28EliteA group of people who are economically and socially powerful(Bill Gates earned 50billion from microsoft)
- 29Foreign direct investmenta financial injection made by a TNC into a nations economy either to built new facilities or merge with an existing firm there
- 30Rural-urban migrationa movement of population from rural to urban areas.
- 31Development gapThe difference in levels of economic and social well-bing between the richest and poorest people on the planet
- 32Gross domestic productA measure of the financial value of the goods and services produced within a territory
- 33Human development indexA United Nations measure of economic and social development that takes into acount income per capita,life expectancy and adult literacy
- 34Petrodollarsmoney derived from selling oil
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- geography FlashCards sobre Going Global key studies, criado por sweet_cherry3 em 13-05-2013.
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