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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Read this carefully. It may help you to answer some of the questions.
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Source B : An adapted extract of a report by John Pilger, a well-known
journalist, which appeared in Guardian Weekend on 4 July 2001.
Jakarta is ringed by vast compounds, known as economic processing zones. These
enclose hundreds of factories that make products for foreign companies: the clothes
you buy on the high street, from the cool khakis of Gap to the Nike, Adidas and
Reebok trainers that sell in the UK for up to 100 pounds a pair. In these factories are
thousands of mostly young women working for the equivalent of *72 pence per day.
Nike workers get about 4% of the retail price of the shoes they make - not enough to
buy the laces. Still, they count themselves lucky: they have jobs. Globalisation has
left more than 36 million without work.
Last year, more than 20 workers at a factory in Wuxi, Jiangsu province that
produces nickel-cadmium batteries for electronic products giant Panasonic was
found to be suffering from high levels of cadmium, a toxic and cancer causing
chemical. Such poisoning is said to be able to cause kidney failure, lung cancer and
bone disease. The cadmium poisoning in Wuxi is one example of how China and its
factory workers are faced with health and environmental challenges from industries
transferred from developed countries, that in turn help fuel the country’s economic
growth amid increasing globalization.
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Source E : A cartoonist’s impression of the effects of globalisation
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Source F : An article extracted from Third World Network, an On-line
newspaper
Despite unprecedented levels of wealth in the world, poverty and hunger are
increasing. The gap between rich and poor nations has widened, as have
inequalities within countries, between social classes, between men and women and
between young and old.
A large proportion of the world’s population still lacks access to food, education, safe
drinking water, sanitation, shelter, land and its resources, employment and health
care services. In addition, the planet resources are being depleted at an alarming
rate. The resulting degradation of the environment threatens everyone’s health,
especially the health of the poor. The world’s resources are increasingly
concentrated in the hands of a few who strive to maximise their private profit.
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a) Study Source A.
What is the message in this source? [5]
e.g. From this source, I can infer that USA is using the world’s resources for
its own benefit. This is evident in the source where it shows a man
representing America, getting ready to eat the world.
This source also tells me that globalization has allowed USA to dominate the
world’s economy as can be seen from the source itself, the American flag
being planted on the globe, signifying USA’s control of world’s resources and
market
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and environmental challenges” and that 20 workers was found to be suffering
from “cancer-causing chemical” as a result of working in factories which have
been relocated from other developed nations.
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c) Study Source D.
To what extent is this source reliable? Explain your answer. [7]
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e.g. Source D is comparing the advantages of globalisation and
disadvantages of practicing a closed economy or protectionism
e.g. The source is reliable as it mentions that globalisation has brought about
benefits evident from the phrase “played an important role in accelerating
growth and poverty reduction.” This claim is supported by Source C which
also says that globalisation “help fuel the country’s economic growth.”
OR
This source claims that globalisation has brought about growth, poverty
reduction in developing countries and reduce overall global inequality but
this claim is not supported by the background knowledge which mentions that
“globalisation tends to benefit the developed countries more” and that
globalisation “brings about negative consequences on weaker nations who
are unable to compete effectively against powerful, industrialised nations.”
Source F also contradicts what Source D says. In Source F, it mentions that
“despite unprecedented levels of wealth in the world, poverty and hunger are
increasing” and that “the gap between rich and poor nations has widened.”
This goes to prove that the claims made by Source D are untrue and
therefore not reliable.
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d) Study Source E.
How useful is this source in telling us about the impacts of globalisation? [7]
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Both parts of L3
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