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🌐 Globalisation & TNCs – A-level
Geography · A-level — practises the causes and impacts of globalisation and the role of transnational corporations
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Which definition of globalisation would an A-level examiner accept?
Movement of people from rural areas to cities
Growing interconnectedness of economies, cultures and people
Growth in the size of the world's population
Spread of one government's laws to every country
20s
Standardised steel boxes that can move between ship, lorry and train cut freight costs hugely. What is this development called?
Deregulation
Privatisation
Mechanisation
Containerisation
20s
The KOF Globalisation Index measures globalisation in which three dimensions?
Social, technological and demographic
Trade, finance and migration
Economic, social and political
Economic, cultural and environmental
20s
A UK insurer closes its Leeds call centre and moves the work to its own subsidiary in India. Which term best describes this?
Reshoring
Offshoring
Glocalisation
Outsourcing
30s
Which statement best describes the 'global shift'?
Service jobs relocating from Asia to Europe and North America
Financial centres moving from cities to rural areas
Manufacturing relocating from HICs to Asian emerging economies
Farming moving from LICs to HICs as machines replace workers
30s
Which feature makes a customs union, such as the EU's, different from a simple free trade area?
A single currency used by every member state
Separate tariffs set by each member on outside goods
Free trade in goods between all member states
A common external tariff on imports from non-members
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Many steel and textile mills in northern England closed as production moved overseas. What is this process called?
Deindustrialisation
Counter-urbanisation
Industrialisation
Gentrification
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McDonald's sells the vegetarian McAloo Tikki burger in India. Which concept does this illustrate?
Global shift
Vertical integration
Glocalisation
Transfer pricing
30s
A US TNC sends the profits made by its factory in Bangladesh back to its headquarters. What is this called?
Trickle-down effect
Positive multiplier effect
Foreign direct investment
Repatriation of profits
30s
Totnes in Devon is well known in debates about localism. What did it do in 2006?
Introduced the UK's first congestion charge
Became the first official Transition Town
Hosted the first Occupy protest camp
Became the world's first Fairtrade Town
30s