Made in India

Theme and Specification link

This activity explores the opportunities and challenges in the growth of the manufacturing industry in India.  

The link to the Financial Times article accompanying this activity can be found here: https://bit.ly/3ZAWiSp

This article underpins many aspects of the globalisation within the A Level Specifications specifically: 

AQA

3.2.1.1 Globalisation.

3.2.1.3 International trade and access to markets.

Edexcel

3.2 Political and economic decision making are important factors in the acceleration of globalisation.

3.4 The global shift has created winners and losers for people and the physical environment.

3.8 Social, political and environmental tensions have resulted from the rapidity of global change caused by globalisation.

3.9 Ethical and environmental concerns about unsustainability have led to increased localism and awareness of the impacts of a consumer society.

7.4 Superpowers have a significant influence over the global economic system.

7.7 Global influence is contested in a number of different economic, environmental and political spheres.

8B.7 Global organisations are not new but have been important in the post-1945 world.

8B.8 IGOs established after the Second World War have controlled the rules of world trade and financial flows.

OCR

1.a. International trade involves flows of merchandise, services and capital which vary spatially.

1.b. Current patterns of international trade are related to global patterns of socioeconomic development.

2.a. Access to markets are influenced by a multitude of interrelated factors.

2.b. There is interdependence between countries and their trading partners.

3.a. International trade creates opportunities and challenges which reflect unequal power relations between countries.

4.a.i. How the global governance of territorial integrity issues has consequences for citizens and places, including short term effects, such as maintaining peace, and longer-term effects, such as trade relationships.

(EDUQAS) & WJEC

(3)4.3.10 The influence of economic factors on the development of selected countries.