Foreign Aid In Australia And Indonesia

Other then our close links in government, defence, education and trade we also supply a sufficient amount of money, approximately $542.5 million this year in aid funding. However in the recent years the Australian government has become less and less inclining to raise or even sustain the amount that we supply to Indonesia and its counterparts in Asia. This would make Australia’s aid spending as a proportion of our national income is at it’s lowest point since 1954 when we began graphing our “generosity”

Australia has an agreement with Vietnam to send aid to further continue the development of the country. AusAID is the government agency that is resposible in taking action with programs put together to complete their goals. Their Millennium

The arguments on aid have been seen largely from two perspectives: idealistic and realistic points of view. The idealist arguments are normative, with no real possibilities of assessing their validity. In contrast, evidence can be gathered to test the economic consequences of aid although different interpretations of the evidence are always possible and disagreements over the conclusiveness of the test are

For example, with consideration to Australia’s bi-lateral relationship with Indonesia, scholars argue the relationship experiences destabilisation due to the two countries not ‘knowing’ each other. Research has also identified a number of people from Asian countries have little knowledge of Australia, except through the focus of koalas and kangaroos., while some Asian minorities consider Australia as white and racist. If Australia wants to maintain strong relations and prosperity in the Asian century, Australia should be prepared to use soft power tools particularly through the arts and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to promote Australia and create an image of what Australia

“Benefits of foreign aid have recently been under severe scrutiny. Several observers argue that a large portion of foreign aid flow from developed to developing countries is wasted and increases unproductive public consumption. Poor institutional development, corruption,

Australia should not reduce its foreign aid commitments. Foreign aid in Australia is a source of funds and support that helps achieve the actions that can be taken to address the problem of poverty in developing countries and regions. Foreign aid can be in forms such as loans or grants and can be provided either directly from one country’s government to another (bilateral aid) or via large international coordinating agencies like the World Bank. In particular, Australia focuses its aid work in the Asia Pacific region as it is one of the poorest regions of the world. By providing Foreign aid to developing countries, such as Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan and many others, Australia builds stronger communities and more stable governments.

The giving of aid do can also benefits the health and welfare of Australian citizens and citizens in neibouring counties such as Indonesia or Papa New Guinea. Australia gives over $100 million dollars of aid to Indonesia and Papa New Guinea, as this region has seen vast economic and population growth. But with this growth have come challenges such as the increasing of infectious diseases like HIV and AIDs. Giving aid to these counties helps treat and prevent the diseases there, but also protect Australia but stooping these possible infectious deices spreading rapidly to Australia. A primary example where an aid has helped stop a disease was the USA aid that helped stop and eradicate

Aid has never been an altruistic process; countries have always given aid to areas that best further their own national interests. Countries give aid for a number of reasons; they range from securing political connections to creating more favourable trade routes. Pure altruism is not the number one reason any country gives aid, and Australia is no exception. National interest lies at the core of all of her foreign aid policies, (DFAT 2015). As such Australia would most benefit as a nation from concentrating her aid on the Indo-Pacific region. Providing nations within our regional neighbourhood with aid results in economic growth for both Australia and her aid recipients. It also stabilises trade and security within the region, thus providing

When I chose Brazil as the subject country for examining its foreign aid received, I ran into a bit of a dilemma. Brazil has evolved from being a foreign aid recipient and less developed nation of the past, to become a major foreign aid provider in recent years. This fact places this emerging country in a unique and interesting position as both a donor and recipient as of 2010 records reveal and Brazil’s donor status is on the increase since this new “middle-of-the-road” development status for this intriguing country emerged.

National development and foreign aid are the two word combinations have been competing on which has been uttered more frequently in the Presidential Palace. Presidents, advisors and even cleaning staff comes and goes but the eternal question remains – to collect or not to collect the international aid to facilitate national development. The ideas range on the spectrum from claims that foreign aid rarely translates into development or that such policies discourage government accountability

There so much said and written about foreign aid that it has become difficult to justify its effectiveness. But if we look at the overall picture in the eye of citizens of a developing country, an honest assessment might conclude that progress has been made. Though, profound social disparities and extreme poverty are still lurking in some parts of this fragile planet.

Foreign aid plays an important role in the developing countries. War has caused famine, malnutrition, and high rate of mortality in the DRC. There is aid from donors in many countries around the globe. Africa,

There are millions of people suffering in the world, just under 1 billion people live on less than 2 Australian dollars a day, over 2 billion do not have access to clean drinking water and roughly 150 million child are unable to attend school. The Australian government spent over $5.4 billion on foreign aid links in 2012. Aid is the transfer of necessities to assist others on a local, national or international scale. International aid, which this report focuses on, is the assistance given to a developing country by a developed country, which boosts economic growth and living standards. There are three types of aid; bilateral aid, multilateral aid and non-government aid. Bilateral aid is aid provided by one government to another. AusAID is

There have been many studies taking place over foreign aid and sub-Saharan Africa since foreign aid initially began after World War 2. Many authors today have begun to ask the question, “Is Africa Different?” (Asiedu 2002). The Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) in the past decade has grown exponentially to 61 percent from the previous 24 percent in 1990. Africa, while seeing a significant increase in amount of investment, still has not seen anywhere near the level of investment that other

7 Foreign aid is beneficial because it can provide education. Without substantial knowledge, many countries are unable to support themselves. The organization “Global Partnership for Education” states, “it must also be