What is globalisation?
How can it affect peoples lives?
•Define Globalisation
•Produce a report on a “Global Player”
•Identify connections
•List +/- of globalisation
•Suggest impacts
The clothing challenge!
Task: look at 3 items of
your clothing – write
down the brand and the
country of production.
Definition – the process
by which information,
money, people, goods and
their cultures can be
transferred between
countries.
Globalisation
How do companies
grow?
Expansion
Merger or
takeover
Diversifying
A Disney World?
Theme Parks
Products are made
Headquarters
Government links
Films
Euro Disney
Cambodia
California
France
Nemo
Japan
Haiti
$32 Billion
$2 billion
Mulan
Walt Disney World
Bangladesh
130 000 employees
30 000 jobs
Hunchback of...
Hong Kong
China
Disney cruise liner
Vietnam
Lion King
40 000 suppliers
USA
50 countries
Copyright
Aladdin
What is the
breadth of
Globalisation –
Initial Ideas
The NEW ECONOMY – CREATING IDEAS – NOT CREATING PRODUCTS
T-P-S
Globalisation - ICT
1500 -1840 Horse drawn carriage (10 mph)
1850 – 1930 trains 65 mph
1950 – propeller 300-400 mph
1960’s – Jet aircraft 500-700 mph
1990’s CyberSpace
Impacts of Globalisation
Politics
Finance
Culture
People
Homework
Create a detailed case study of sub-Saharan
Africa.
It should focus on why Africa has been left so far
behind with regards to the development gap.
This should include:
Facts/Figs – HDI, GDP and a comparison.
What has caused it to slip behind and any
solutions that can get it out.