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1
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What are the social push (leave) factors of Karachi?

A

Poverty, literacy, conflict, low income

30%-50% living in informal settlements

2
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What are the economic push (leave) factors of Karachi?

A

Limited opportunities, development funds, lack of resources

3
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What are the environmental push (leave) factors of Karachi?

A

Natural disasters, climate, food consumption reduced by 25% as of climate change

4
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What are the social pull (enter) factors of Karachi?

A

basic services, living conditions, political stability and connections

5
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What are the economic pull (enter) factors of Karachi?

A

opportunities, infrastructure investment, new market

6
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What are the environmental pull (enter) factors of Karachi?

A

Sanitation, land to live on

7
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Impacts of rapid urban growth (Social) in Karachi?

A

Poverty - no room within the city to move in (mega city)

8
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Impacts of rapid urban growth (economic) in Karachi?

A

Economy increases for those who have businesses but those who can barley afford suffer

9
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Impacts of rapid urban growth (environmental) in Karachi?

A

Land suffers as they build more and have urban sprawl. People living within poor areas degrade further.

10
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Evidence of low wage migration in the Philippines? (4)

A

10% of population is working in neatly 200 countries
benefit from government remittance payments - about to reach $10 billion a year
push factors - low FDI, political stability, low wage
can’t develop economically as workers are leaving country

11
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Evidence of high migration in Russia? (3)

A

Special visa’s allow migration from outside EU in exchange for investments
Moscow has attempted to discourage Russians from leaving the country with new rules
1/5 of all investments are from visas

12
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Evidence of rural-urban migration into Mumbai?

A

Foreign investments from TNCs - Jobs created
Technology and transport links - opportunity’s
75% of migrants from rural areas
People living in urban areas because of unemployment-better machinery, less poverty - Services funded by taxes

13
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What is low wage migration?

A

Migration of people with low wages, government benefit from remittance payments (Philippines)

14
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What is elite migration?

A

Migration of richer people (Russians)