2. Global networks and flows
Syllabus Link: How different places become interconnected by global
interactions
Contemporary Global Networks and Flows
Global trade in materials, manufactured goods and services
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Interactive map: Global flow of goods
Article & videos: The goods & commodities shaping world trade
Visualization: Global goods trade interactive
Visualizations: OECD interactive trade graphs & maps
PDF: WTO trade summary 2017
PDF: WTO goods & services summary 2017
Article & videos: The goods & commodities shaping world trade
Visualization: Global goods trade interactive
Visualizations: OECD interactive trade graphs & maps
PDF: WTO trade summary 2017
PDF: WTO goods & services summary 2017
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An overview of international aid, loans and debt relief
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Interactive map: Global flow of goods
Activity: Global flows summaries
Resources: Global flows articles and videos
Website: Global Flows
International remittances from economic migrants
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Illegal flows, such as trafficked people, counterfeit goods and narcotics
Trafficked People
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Counterfeit Goods
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Narcotics
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Article & maps: Maps of the hard drug trade
Wiki: The illegal drug trade
Report: Global drug trade worth half a trillion dollars
Wildlife Trafficking
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PDF: Environmental crime - The trafficking of wildlife and timber
Infographic: Illegal wildlife trade
Infographic: Ivory poaching facts
Article: Thai trafficking kingpin arrested
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FDI & Outsourcing - TNCs & Global Flows
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and outsourcing by transnational corporations (TNCs), and ways in which this networks places and markets
Intro to TNCs
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Slides: Introduction to TNCs
Website: BBC Bitesized - Transnational Corporations
Webpage: Worlds top 10 largest companies in 2020
Reading: Who is more powerful - States or corporations?
FDI
Outsourcing
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TNCs Case Studies
Two contrasting detailed examples of TNCs and their global strategies and supply chains
IKEA
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Website: Ikea - About us
Wiki: Ikea
Prezi: Ikea's supply chain
Article: How does Ikea's supply chain really work?
Article: Ikea - our suppliers
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Apple
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Article: Where are Apple products made?
Article: Designed in California but made in China
Article: Is Apple's supply chain really #1
Article: Apple says it won't repatriate profits until it has a fair rate
Fact Sheet: Apple workers in Shenzhen
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