1 Recap chapter 1 (test preparation)

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Prepping for the test 10 nov

What do you need to know?

<- Don't let your head down!

Need to know 1.1 Is the balance of the economic power shifting?

• You know who are the drivers of global shift and why.
• You can explain why the volume of world trade increased after 1980 (three causes).
• You can describe what globalisation is (definition of the term).
• You can desribe the connection between global shift and multipolar world order.
  

Need to know 1.2 Development of the world economy

• You can describe the difference between trade colonialism and industrial colonialism.
• You know the two changes to the World Order after the Second World war.
• You understand what free trade is and how free trade changed the global economy.

Need to know 1.3 Development at different speeds

• You know a number of internal and external causes for differences in development.
• You can explain how internal and external causes are interrelated with poverty.
• You can explain what the Gini coefficient is and know how to read social inequality from a graph in which the Gini coefficient is depicted.

Internal causes: human-inequality

Why does inequality within a country increase when it develops economically?

• Some areas and people are benefiting more from growing prosperity.

Social inequality is measured using the Gini coefficient. Gini = 0 (equal). Gini = 1 (most unequal)

High inequality combined with a shortage of work can lead to unrest in a country.

Internal causes: human-population

Population growth and age structure.

Need to know 1.4 Europe: winners and losers

• You can explain why the Ruhr region is de-industrialised.
• You can explain why the Ruhr region is still an economically strong region.
• You can describe what agglomeration advantages there could be for companies.

Need to know 1.5 The Netherlands: winners and losers

• You can describe what is meant by the globalisation index.
• You can describe what is meant by outsourcing.
• You can explain why Eindhoven is one of most succesful economically developed regions in the Netherlands and Groningen one of the least.

What do you need to study?

• The (key)terms on page 21 of the textbook
• Make sure you can answer the learning objectives as stated in the lesson called 'test preparation'
  
• Study your textbook AND LessonUp presentations