-extreme poverty fell – 800m lifted out of poverty
(poverty =84% in 1980 to 10% in 2016)
-hi-tech manufacturing boom
-increased global competition so downward pressure on price
-investment into infrastructure – high speed rail
, -education is free for 5-15 year olds
But
-20% earn less than $2 a day which the WB classifies as poverty
India outsourcing of services – Winners (BT call centres in Bangalore)
Pros
-middle class wages
-profitable for outsourcing companies
Cons
-widens inequality
-work can be repetitive or at night due to time zones
-works lack bargaining power
India outsourcing- Nike
-Bhopal Disaster 1984
-leaked toxic gas from industrial accident at Nike
= water and soil contaminated with chemicals causing respiratory disorders, cancer, stillbirths
-20,000 died
India – river gangees
-1bn untreated sewage a day +inadequate cremation procedures – partially burnt floating corpse
Dharavi Slums + Mumbai
-22m population
Slums = water access for 2 hours a day at 5:30am
Poor sanitation and disease- Typhoic= 4,000 cases a day
NOTE= 85% employe
Global shift negatives (Detroit)
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