HL Geography - Unit 4: Global Interactions

Clark-Fisher Model

a model produced by two economists helping explain changes in employment structures as countries develop

Kuznets Curve

a model which shows how environmental degradation changes over time during a country’s development

diaspora

the worldwide dispersal of a particular nation’s migrant population and their descendants

30 million in 2019

the Indian Diaspora

22 countries

the number of countries that have concentrations of at least 100’000 ethnic Indians

16 million

number of members of the Indian diaspora which are non-resident Indians (NRI’s)

12 million

number of members of the Indian diaspora which are persons of Indian origin (PIO’s)

US $70 billion

the value of remittance flows from the Indian diaspora, being the largest in the world

affirmative action

policies addressing the under-representation of disadvantaged groups in the labor market

40% for public limited and European companies

the French gender quota

6% for firms with +20 workers

the French quota for people with disabilities

WhatIfFoods

a TNC focus on ethical choice rather than market monopoly with a HQ based in Singapore

Meta

the company formerly known as Facebook and a leading media TNC

3 billion

the number of Facebook users in 2021

India with 350 million monthly users

the largest market for Facebook

post the 1970s reform

when China transitioned from a closed economy to a global powerhouse

1971

Greenpeace was founded in…

mag 8.9

the magnitude of the earthquake which hit the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant causing a partial nuclear meltdown

70’000

the number of people forced to migrate away after the Fukushima meltdown