Human case studies Questions and
Answers
Mobile phones Kenya
✓ ~~~ 2005 6% had phone
✓ 2015 75% had phone
✓ MPES 1/3 Kenya's gdp through it
Macdonald
✓ ~~~ 120 countries
Trade blocs eu protectionism against china
✓ ~~~ Stopped $50mil of Chinese clothes entering
Privatisation example
✓ ~~~ Reolis French firm with stake in Southern rail
SEZs in china
✓ ~~~ Pre 1978: nationalised no FDI
✓ 1978: xi ping'open door policy'
✓ Privatisation
✓ Joined WB AND IMF
✓ 1989 4 SEZs 13th exporter
✓ 1993 40% growth shenzen
✓ 2016 500million out of poverty 300mil middle class
AT Kearney index
✓ ~~~ Measure of globalised cities. It considers economic, personal, technological and
political factors.
KOF index
, ✓ ~~~ measures the progress of globalization, combines economic, political, and social
dimensions.
✓ Top Ireland, Netherlands Belgium
✓ Comparisons of many countries since 1970 24 variables
✓ EV Small countries over represented
✓ EV letters are irrelevant
✓ EV no informal economy
✓ EV some countries are neutral
TNCs
✓ ~~~ Top 200 25% global supply
✓ 75k In 2015
✓ Publicly traded BP $359 Bn
✓ State owned ICBC $163bn
✓ Mini bmw 25k global companies
North Korea SWITCHED OFF
✓ ~~~ $1800 GDP
✓ NO access to internet /media
✓ NO undersea cables
✓ 9% have a phone
✓ No freedom of movement
✓ No tourism
✓ Military focus
South Korea switched on
✓ ~~~ 13th PPP/GDP
G20
5thM & 7thX
FTAs with 75% of world
11.1 mil tourism/year
Most developed in SE Asia
,Manufacture in china
✓ ~~~ 2010 no1 country for manufacture 28.7% of worlds
Infrastructure longest highway network HSR
SHANGhais MAGLEV
82 airports
Free compulsory schooling
G20 member
Negative
70% rivers polluted 'denim towns'
Water shortage in 1000 cities
4.4k day killed for air pollution
Deforested 40%
Bangalore outsourcing call centres
✓ ~~~ 1.2 firms in IT 'electronic city'
English lang (British rule up to 1947
Broadband capacity for early TNCs investment - Texas Instruments
EVAL
along hours 6 days/week
Inequality 0.5bn have no toilet
, Congestion
Demand outstrips supply 50%
Detroit
✓ ~~~ 1920 4th largest city now 18th (lost 1/4 pop.)
2013 bankrupt 1/3 below poverty line
45/100000 murders
Redcar Middlesbrough
✓ ~~~ Steel and chemical industries decline
98 year old plant closure 1.7k jobs
2011 2% decrease in population over 10 years
Lower life expectancy
Remittances
✓ ~~~ India top receiver $13bn
40% Afghanistans GDP
Karachi/ Mumbai
✓ ~~~ Lack of housing
Lack of services/strain
Unemployment.
Answers
Mobile phones Kenya
✓ ~~~ 2005 6% had phone
✓ 2015 75% had phone
✓ MPES 1/3 Kenya's gdp through it
Macdonald
✓ ~~~ 120 countries
Trade blocs eu protectionism against china
✓ ~~~ Stopped $50mil of Chinese clothes entering
Privatisation example
✓ ~~~ Reolis French firm with stake in Southern rail
SEZs in china
✓ ~~~ Pre 1978: nationalised no FDI
✓ 1978: xi ping'open door policy'
✓ Privatisation
✓ Joined WB AND IMF
✓ 1989 4 SEZs 13th exporter
✓ 1993 40% growth shenzen
✓ 2016 500million out of poverty 300mil middle class
AT Kearney index
✓ ~~~ Measure of globalised cities. It considers economic, personal, technological and
political factors.
KOF index
, ✓ ~~~ measures the progress of globalization, combines economic, political, and social
dimensions.
✓ Top Ireland, Netherlands Belgium
✓ Comparisons of many countries since 1970 24 variables
✓ EV Small countries over represented
✓ EV letters are irrelevant
✓ EV no informal economy
✓ EV some countries are neutral
TNCs
✓ ~~~ Top 200 25% global supply
✓ 75k In 2015
✓ Publicly traded BP $359 Bn
✓ State owned ICBC $163bn
✓ Mini bmw 25k global companies
North Korea SWITCHED OFF
✓ ~~~ $1800 GDP
✓ NO access to internet /media
✓ NO undersea cables
✓ 9% have a phone
✓ No freedom of movement
✓ No tourism
✓ Military focus
South Korea switched on
✓ ~~~ 13th PPP/GDP
G20
5thM & 7thX
FTAs with 75% of world
11.1 mil tourism/year
Most developed in SE Asia
,Manufacture in china
✓ ~~~ 2010 no1 country for manufacture 28.7% of worlds
Infrastructure longest highway network HSR
SHANGhais MAGLEV
82 airports
Free compulsory schooling
G20 member
Negative
70% rivers polluted 'denim towns'
Water shortage in 1000 cities
4.4k day killed for air pollution
Deforested 40%
Bangalore outsourcing call centres
✓ ~~~ 1.2 firms in IT 'electronic city'
English lang (British rule up to 1947
Broadband capacity for early TNCs investment - Texas Instruments
EVAL
along hours 6 days/week
Inequality 0.5bn have no toilet
, Congestion
Demand outstrips supply 50%
Detroit
✓ ~~~ 1920 4th largest city now 18th (lost 1/4 pop.)
2013 bankrupt 1/3 below poverty line
45/100000 murders
Redcar Middlesbrough
✓ ~~~ Steel and chemical industries decline
98 year old plant closure 1.7k jobs
2011 2% decrease in population over 10 years
Lower life expectancy
Remittances
✓ ~~~ India top receiver $13bn
40% Afghanistans GDP
Karachi/ Mumbai
✓ ~~~ Lack of housing
Lack of services/strain
Unemployment.
