NICs and TNCs
Subjects / Geography / Development
The world is constantly changing. In recent years, globalisation - the process of increasing connections and interdependence across the world - has changed the way that countries and companies operate in today's global marketplace. Newly Industrialised Countries, or NICs, have emerged as manufacturing and new technologies have driven economic growth. This has resulted in substantial improvements for industrial development and standards of living in these countries. Transnational Corporations known as TNCs have taken advantage of globalisation and now locate factories and sell products across the world. However, not all countries have kept up with these changes. LEDCs have been unable to compete, and still have the majority of their population employed in the primary sector and informal work. The speed of changes has led to the divide between the rich and the poor becoming ever wider.
| Author: | Victoria Hull | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Stuart Blackburn | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-255-8 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-755-3 |
Chapters
- NICs and the Asian Tigers
- South Korea: How did they do it?
- TNCs and their Power
- Ford: a TNC
- Industry in LEDCs
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art. Additional pictorial images created by Damon Smith
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- A case study of an industrialising LEDC to illustrate causes and consequences eg South Korea
- Compare effects in an LEDC, an NIC and a country in the EU e.g. Ghana, Brazil and Sweden
- costs and benefits of the role of TNCs
- the effects on LEDCs of the role of TNCs
- The role of trans-national corporations in international development. Japanese investment in the EU and the Pacific Rim countries
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