Economic+Interactions+and+Flows

=Economic Interactions and Flows=


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 * Spec || Aims ||  || Resources || Activities ||
 * Financial flows || Examine the importance of loans, debt repayment, development aid, remittances, foreign direct investment, repatriation of profits in the transfer of capital between the developed core areas and the peripheries.

Remember links to CORE - development aid, remittances, trade in developing countries.



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See Mr Bray for further video's! || 1 || Course Companion (Nagle and Cook 349-)

[|2010 Top 10 Remittance Corridors] [|Importance of Remittances BBC News] || 1-Create definitions of each key term from the spec. (wordmap)

2- Previously you have identified Core and Periphery areas according to development.

3-Use the map to describe and explain where the core and periphery areas are according to GDP 4-Tasks 339/341/344 Nagle and Cooke.

5-Summarise in a table the overall value of loans, ODA, remittences and FDI to 10 selected countries. || [|China Provide $20Billion credit for Africa] [|Chinese Colonialism]
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[|China to build UK nuclear plants?] || Building an Essay Q- Examine (relative importance) the importance of loans, debt repayment, development aid, remittences and profit repatriation in the transfer of capital between Core and Periphery. Use your summary as a basis, but also include detailed examples of who is transferring capital around the world and how it is used. Relative importance should include not only stats on finance totals but also qualitative information on the benefits or not of each type. || Burtenshaw Economy and Development. P70, 71. Nagle and Cooke P346.
 * || Examine the influence of governments, world trading organizations and financial institutions (such as WTO, IMF and World Bank) in the transfer of capital. || 3 || HWK

[|What is the WTO?] [|Benefits of the WTO by the WTO] [|What does the IMF do?] [|The IMF at a glance] || Hwk Task - Create a Poster advertising positive benefits of the WTO and the IMF. Create an alternate poster for an anti-globalisation group depicting the reasons why the WTO and IMF are biased and unfair in their actions. || [|Timeline of Euro Crisis] [|Who can drive recovery?] [|Who is afraid of the Euro Crisis?] || Euro Zone Crisis Describe the crisis happening in the EuroZone?
 * ||^  || 4 || [|BBC website on Euro Crisis Causes]

How has debt and loaning of capital led to the crisis? Which governments and global institutions are at risk Who is trying to solve the crisis? What are they trying to do? || [|India's Outsourcing outsourcing!] ||  || http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665553/infographic-of-the-day-how-walmart-dwarfs-entire-industries-and-nations accessed June282012
 * Labour flows || Explain the causes and effects of one major flow of labour between two countries. || 5 || USA - MEXICO || Review Information from Case Study in Core Section. ||
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 * information flows || Explain the role of ICT in the growth of international outsourcing. || 7 || DVD doc-Booming Bangalore.
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