Going Global

Worked examples (8)

• 1Define a transnational corporation (2 marks)
• 2Describe the spatial division of labour (3 marks)
• 3Identify the roles of the WTO, IMF and World Bank (4 marks)
• 4Explain how governments attract FDI (5 marks)
• 5Explain glocalisation with an example (4 marks)
• 6Explain the benefits of a trading bloc (6 marks)
• 7Explain how TNCs drive globalisation (6 marks)
• 8Assess criticisms of IGOs (6 marks)

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• 1Define globalisation and identify one flow (3 marks)
• 2Classify the flows of globalisation (4 marks)
• 3The three dimensions of the KOF Index (3 marks)
• 4Explain how containerisation shrank the world (4 marks)
• 5Explain time-space compression (6 marks)
• 6Free trade versus protectionism: the effect of a tariff (5 marks)
• 7Evaluate the limits of a globalisation index (5 marks)
• 8Explain how technology drives globalisation (6 marks)

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• 1Define urbanisation (2 marks)
• 2Classify push and pull factors (4 marks)
• 3Distinguish a megacity from a world city (3 marks)
• 4Explain two causes of rapid urban growth in LICs (4 marks)
• 5Explain the urban cycle in HICs (6 marks)
• 6Explain challenges of informal settlements (5 marks)
• 7Explain urban primacy (5 marks)
• 8Evaluate strategies for managing rapid urban growth (6 marks)

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• 1Define the global shift (3 marks)
• 2Classify winners and losers from globalisation (4 marks)
• 3Distinguish switched-on and switched-off places (3 marks)
• 4Explain an environmental cost of the global shift (5 marks)
• 5Explain cultural erosion / homogenisation (4 marks)
• 6Explain how globalisation widens inequality (6 marks)
• 7Explain the role of world cities as global hubs (5 marks)
• 8Evaluate the social costs of TNC production (6 marks)

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• 1Interpret a youthful population pyramid (3 marks)
• 2Name the five stages of the DTM (4 marks)
• 3Youthful versus aged dependency (3 marks)
• 4Calculate a dependency ratio (4 marks)
• 5Explain the causes of an ageing population (4 marks)
• 6Interpret two contrasting population pyramids (6 marks)
• 7Contrast Malthus and Boserup (6 marks)
• 8Consequences and management of a youthful population (6 marks)

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• 1Classify the main types of migration (3 marks)
• 2Distinguish push and pull factors (4 marks)
• 3Distinguish economic migrant, refugee and asylum seeker (3 marks)
• 4Explain Lee's push–pull model with intervening obstacles (4 marks)
• 5Explain the Mexico → USA migration corridor (5 marks)
• 6Explain how remittances affect a source country (6 marks)
• 7Interpret a migration desire-line map (5 marks)
• 8Costs and benefits to source and host countries (6 marks)

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