TTO 3 - Chapter 3

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Which answer is correct?

1. USA = MEDC Brazil = LEDC Nepal = NIC
2. USA = LEDC Brazil = NIC Nepal = MEDC
3. USA = NIC Brazil = MEDC Nepal = LEDC
4. USA = MEDC Brazil = NIC Nepal = LEDC

What is the GDP of a country?

1. The total amount of money a country earns in a year
2. The total amount of money a country earns in a year, divided by the population
3. The average people in that country earn per year
4. The total value of all the export of a country in a year.

''The total amount of money a country earns in a year, divided by the population''.

Which term do we use for this?

1. Export value
2. The economy
3. Supply chain
4. GDP per person

Especially labour-intensive jobs leave MEDCs. What are labour-intensive jobs?

1. Jobs that require a lot of work from machines.
2. Jobs that require a lot of time and effort from people.
3. Jobs that can easily be replaced by machines.
4. Jobs that require a lot of natural resources.

Which part of the supply chain is most likely done in an MEDC?

1. The production
2. The design
3. The assemblage
4. The promotion and sales of the product

What is the assemblage of a product?

1. Different intermediate goods are put together to form the final good.
2. The raw materials are collected transported to the factories.
3. Intermediate goods are made out of raw materials.
4. The final good is transported to the distribution centers.

Which of the following answers does NOT describe a form of globalisation?

1. Coming year we'll go to France in the summer.
2. Yesterday we had a burger from McDonald's.
3. Because of global warming, temperatures are rising quickly.
4. Yesterday I sawa Harry Potter movie in the cinema.

Goals

- You can discuss factors that influence where companies locate their production or services.

- You can discuss for what type of business a country has many comparative advantages.

- You can explain which changes made it possible for companies to split up their production process.

- You can explain why this global production process is a good example of globalisation.

What to do next?

1. Go to the week task in Magister. 

2. Open the assignment.

3. Start with the assignment. You can work together in pairs. 

4. At the end of the lesson I would like to discuss the assignments related  to the article about China. 

Goals

- You can discuss factors that influence where companies locate their production or services.

- You can discuss for what type of business a country has many comparative advantages.

- You can explain which changes made it possible for companies to split up their production process.

- You can explain why this global production process is a good example of globalisation.

China has several comparative advantages for producing clothes. Write down 5.

Give an example of a footloose company.