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Benefits of Global Shift for Asia (3)

  • Poverty reduction and waged work
  • Education and Training
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  • Only 4% of China’s urban population was considered to be middle class
  • Rising to over 30% in 2018
  • By 2030, it is estimated Asia will be home to 3 bn middle class people
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Costs of Global Shift for Asia (5)

  • Enviornment and Resource pressure
  • Infrastructure and unplanned settlements
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  • Pakistan has the highest annual deforestation rate in Asia
  • Losing 27,000 hectares of natural forest area annually
  • To fuel industralisation and agriculture
  • Also, of the most polluted cities in the world, 21 out of 30 were in India in 2019
  • Due to lack of enviornmental rules and regulation
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Costs of Global Shift for Asia (2)

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  • Enviornment and Resource pressure
  • Infrastructure and unplanned settlements
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Global Shift: Working Practices (7)

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  • The ‘exporting’ of unethical practices
  • Which industrialised nations abandoned long ago
  • Including: dangerous working conditions
  • As seen through the Rana Plaza Collapse (April 2013)
  • Child labour
  • And highly unequal pay for men and women
  • All can currently be seen in Bangladesh and Vietnam
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Benefits of Global Shift for Asia (4)

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  • Poverty reduction and waged work
  • Education and Training
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Costs of Global Shift for Developed Nations (5)

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  • Deindustrialisation, which results in:
  • High unemployment
  • Crime
  • Depopulation
  • Dereliction
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Deindustrialisation (4)

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  • The decline of regionally important manufacturing industries
  • A result of ‘global shift’
  • Results in high unemployment
  • Which can create a spiral of decline
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Benefits of Global Shift for Asia (6)

  • Poverty reduction and waged work
  • Education and Training
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  • Education has improved in recent decades
  • E.g. According to the OECD
  • In 2017, India had 24,300 PHD graduates
  • In 2004, they had under 10,000
  • Asian countries now play a leading role in quarternary sector research
  • However, illiteracy remains a problem in rural India and Bangladesh
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Costs of Global Shift for Asia (2)

  • Enviornment and Resource pressure
  • Infrastructure and unplanned settlements
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  • Infrastructure development has taken off in Asia
  • Bringing modern moterways, high-speed railways and new airports
  • To cities such as Jakarta
  • However, urban populations are growing faster than new housing
  • So unplanned settlements spring up to house people
  • E.g. Dharavi, India
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Global Shift (4)

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  • The international relocation
  • Of different types of industrial activity, especially manufacturing.
  • Stems from a combination of offshoring, outsourcing
  • And new business start ups in emerging economies