Student Resources - Chapter 2
- Internet Activity
- Multiple Choice Quiz
- Matching Exercise
- Worksheets & Handout
- Related Internet Links
Internet Activity 2.1
Exploring abuses by transnational corporations
Go to www.multinationalmonitor.org and www.corporatewatch.org and then search the sites to find answers to the following questions.
- Identify three transnational corporations which are particularly singled out for criticism. Give a brief description in each case of what line of business each corporation is concerned with.
- Identify and briefly explain two criticisms that are made of each of these corporations.
- Identify and briefly explain, with contemporary examples, how the activities of transnational corporations may be harmful to the lives and economic well-being of people living in developing countries.
- Drawing on material from the websites, explain what is meant by corporate responsibility and suggest two advantages and two disadvantages of corporations adopting socially responsible policies.
Multiple Choice Quiz 2
Click here to access the Multiple Choice Quiz for this Chapter.
Matching Exercise 2
Click here to access the Matching Exercise for this Chapter.
Worksheets & Handout
Click here to download the Worksheets & Handout on Global Development.
Internet links - 2 Global Development
- www.worldmapper.org - hundreds of maps of the world, covering many issues and providing new ways of seeing the world.
- http://hdr.undp.org/en/ - the site of the United Nations Human Development Report.
- www.iim-edu.org/polls/grossnationalhappinesssurvey.htm - the International Institute of Management’s attempt at a global Gross National Happiness Survey.
- www.rrojasdatabank.info/agfrank/ - the site of dependency theorist Andre Gunder Frank.
- www.yaleglobal.yale.edu/slideshow_presentations.jsp - Nayan Chanda’s PowerPoint slides giving an account of globalization, including how a virus has globalized.
- www.tourismconcern.org.uk - a site campaigning on tourism and human rights issues, and exposing tourism's exploitative practices in developing countries.
- www.terrorism.com - the Terrorism Research Center website.
- www.uk.oneworld.net/ - a site covering human rights and sustainable development, and access to the sites of a range of International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs).
- www.multinationalmonitor.org/ and www.corporatewatch.org are two websites reporting on alleged wrongdoings by transnational corporations.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/business_trade_and_poor_
countries/html/8.stm - BBC News reports on poor countries, trade and poverty. - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/4306219.stm - a BBC Panorama report on ‘The dollar a day dress’, symbolizing how the world trade system harms the poor.
- www.brettonwoodsproject.org - a site scrutinizing and seeking to influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- www.guardian.co.uk/katine - a wide range of reports that provide an overview of life in the Katine area of Uganda.
- www.savethechildren.org.uk/kroobay - a site showing the lives of people in a slum area of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The web sites of the big three International Governmental Organizations (IGOs):
- www.imf.org - The International Monetary Fund.
- www.worldbank.org - The World Bank.
- www.wto.org - The World Trade Organization.
- www.g7.utoronto.ca - The site of the G8 (Group of the eight major industrial countries)
