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Aid Advantages and Disadvantages
Aid Advantages and Disadvantages
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Australia providing aid in its region. (Asia Pacific)
Include cultural, economic and geopolitical.
Australia provides aid as a purpose to promote Australias national interest. When trying to promote
the
Advantages Disadvantages
- Create/build links with other Countries
(especially with south east Asian countries)
- Promotes Australia to the world.
- Gives Australia a better reputation
- Improve the recipient countrys wellbeing
(i.e. Poverty, mortality rate)
- Influencing Trade
- Save lives (addresses humanitarian issues)
- Raising the standard of services in the
region.
- Stimulate economic developments (i.e.
Infrastructure) which could possibly lead to
economic growth.
- By making countries improve their health
systems, this would prevent the flow of
diseases (people travel around)
- By making countries more secure, we
would be surrounded by more peaceful and
safe countries.
- Promote economic growth within the
donors country (tied aid)
- Strengthen Security
- Cost money and resources
- Long- term investments could fail.
- Countries can be become too reliant on
Australia.
- Corruption within the country can result in
uneven distribution of aid.
- Could only be a short term fix.
- Doesnt create a sustainable economy for
the recipient country.
- It may not be welcomed within the country
- Other countries may look down on
Australia if they dont have positive
relations with the recipient country.
- Countries that have to repay could
experience debt.