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Shipwreck Ltd is considering expanding into the Brazilian market for ship recycling. Brazil has hundreds of sunken ships along its shores and represents an opportunity, but also risks. The ship recycling market has uncertainties around ship conditions and metal prices. Foreign direct investment could work if there are valuable ships to salvage, ownership is clear, the government provides incentives, and local workers can be hired. However, Brazil also has infrastructure, legal, and currency volatility challenges to consider. Extensive research is needed to determine if investment in Brazil is advisable.
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El documento presenta una lista de términos y eventos históricos clave relacionados con la Revolución Francesa, el periodo napoleónico, el Manifiesto Comunista y la independencia de Estados Unidos. Incluye definiciones de monarquía absoluta, anarquismo y nacionalismo, así como la máquina de vapor y la constitución. También cita las clases sociales del Antiguo Régimen, las nuevas industrias y fuentes de energía durante la segunda fase de la industrialización, tres filósofos de la Ilust
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2. A globalización
É un fenómeno caracterizado pola interdependencia
económica, política e cultural de todos os países do mundo.
Características:
Ter unha cobertura mundial
A súa inmediatez
Ser basicamente económica
Dar transformado as bases da sociedade
Dar creado unha conciencia global
A globalización económica
Centros tradicionais de poder económico e político: Estados
Unidos, Europa e Xapón.
Potencias emerxentes: China, Brasil, India e Rusia
Tamén atopamos outros países que se converteron en
potencias de ámbito rexional.
3.
4. Características da globalización económica:
A concentración de capital e a formación de grandes
empresas.
A defensa da libre competencia
A facilidade dos movementos especulativos de capitais
polas bolsas mundiais
Vida cotiá e globalización
O comercio global grazas á publicidade de:
-Determinados productos alimenticios ou o hábito da comida
rápida
-As marcas de coches
-Destinos exóticos que ofrecen as empresas turísticas
A ciencia e a cultura:
-Descubrimentos científicos e innovacións tecnolóxicas
-A literatura, as películas e a música.
5.
6. Os riscos da globalización
AS ENFERMIDADES
Perigo de contaxio dalgunhas enfermidades, como a SIDA.
O TERRORISMO
Grupos humanos violentos que rexeitan o orden político e social
mundial.
Desenvolvemento tecnolóxico e economía
Desenvolvemento da investigación científica
Os gobernos e grandes empresas moven moita cantidade de
diñeiro.
As patentes son unha boa fonte de ingreso.
Comunicación, información e
desenvolvemento
A informática é un grande factos de desenvolvemento
Créanse autoestradas de información (Internet)
7.
8. Información global e controlada
Difusión xeneralizada e inmediata de imaxes
O PODER DA COMUNICACIÓN E DA INFORMACIÓN
A información: xera riqueza e inflúe na opinión pública
Fórmanse grandes empresas da información. Algunhas fan
prevalecer a ética e a prefesionalidade
Converteuse este sector nun ámbito de loita polo poder.
Medios de comunicación globais
UN MUNDO TELEVISIVO
Televisión: principal medio da información e de entretemento
INFLUENCIA CULTURAL GLOBAL
Os medios de comunicación teñen un alcance global e
difunden o estilo de vida occidental
Existen grandes compañías
Facilidades comerciais e de intercambio
9.
10. CARA A UN MUNDO HOMOXÉNEO?
Os medios de comunicación comparten visións particulares do
mundo.
Formanse comunidades virtuais.
O ciberespazo global
CARA A UNHA ALDEA GLOBAL
Os medios de comunicación desempeñan un papel clave.
Todo contribúe a que haxa un cambio de escala inédito.
AS REDES SOCIAIS
As redes sociais estendéronse e permiten establecer estreitos
vínculos.
No ciberespazo as cousas non están localizadas en ningún lugar
concreto.
11. O desigual acceso ao benestar
Hai diferenzas no nivel de desenvolvemento e benestar
Índice de Desenvolvemento Humano (IDH)
A ESPERANZA DE VIDA
Situase nos 69 anos. Aínda que hai grandes desigualdades.
A EDUCACIÓN
Houbo unha mellora no acceso á educación. O 84% da
poboación sabe ler e escribir.
Redúcense as desigualdades de xénero.
Fame e sobrealimentación
Hai fame especialmente en África Subsahariana.
Pode haber causas naturais e causas humanas.
En países ricos hai obesidade.
12.
13. Os desequilibrios demográficos
A natalidade diminúe, pero nos países pobre hai unha
poboación nova moi elevada.
A pobreza nos países pobres aumenta.
A descolonización
Moitas colonias europeas independizáronse.
Exercese un dominio económico.
Prodúcense guerras civís.
Globalización e débeda externa
Comercio desigual.
Os países pobres piden créditos e acumulan débedas externas
O goberno recauda cartos mediante os impostos
Algúns impostos dedícanse á compra de armas ou ao
enriquecemento das minorías.
14. Algunhas medidas de futuro
Condular ou anular a débeda externa
Dedicar o 0.7% da Renda Nacional Bruta a axudar ao
desenvolvemento.
Establecer un comercio xusto.