GPE, Employment

• Maatschappijleer
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

What are we going to do today?

-Short lesson
-Small assignment

How does the infrastructure of a counrty influence it's employment rate?

-Let's break it down.

What is infrastructure?

-the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities .

What is employment rate?

-Employment rates are defined as a measure of the extent to which available labour resources.

How is it connected?

-The infrastructe influences the employment rate because it dictates to what extend people can get to their jobs or even the amount of jobs are needed in an area.

In practice examples

-China
-India

We chose these countries because they are large foreign countries that are growing form lower developed countries to higher developed countries.

Facts

-China: Unemployment rate 3,95%, Population
1,37 billion, Population density 146.851 people per square KM, Strong and developing infrastructure.
-India: Unemployment rate 4,9%, Population
1,32 billion, Population density 445.371 per square KM, Poor and not so much developing infrastructure.

Comparison

-Although it seems like there is not much of a difference between the two, the GNI (gross-national-income) of someone from China, (15.500 US dollars), is almost double of what someone from India makes, (6.490 US dollars).

Different Perspective

-Ofcourse the population density of India is much higher than that of China, but that is because everyone in India wants to live in a city. The infrastructure is so poor, people can only find jobs in the city, if any at all. In China people get the oppertunity to find jobs outside of the city they live and are much more inclined to go because it is easy to get there.

We know the Problem, now the Solution

-The best way to solve this problem is for the government to invest money in infrastructe, such as building roads and restoring them.
-This way the government is improving the countries infrastructure and creating job oppertunities because there will be people needed to build those roads.

All summed up

-Eventhough China and India are not very different, statisically, the infrastructure influences job oppertunities greatly. China heavily invests in this and India does not. Altough the unemployment rate does not differ a lot the average Chinese makes almost double of the average Indian. The government can improve the GNI by investing in Infrastructure, especially roads. That way it will become easier for people to get and go to their jobs.

The End