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Globalisation and Economic Change
Quick questions on Transnational corporations and production explained: H2 Geography
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What are impacts on home countries?Show answer
Benefits: profits return home; high-value jobs and headquarters remain; consumers gain cheaper goods. Costs: deindustrialisation and job losses as manufacturing is offshored, and the social effects of that decline.
What are one-sided impact answers?Show answer
Host countries gain capital, jobs and technology but face repatriation, dependence and weak standards; weigh both.
What is q1?Show answer
Give two reasons a transnational corporation locates production in a lower-income country. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain the new international division of labour. [3 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Explain one benefit and one cost of TNC investment for a host country. [2 marks]
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