Development - state responses

Question 1

AusAid - funding and methods

Answer 1

• aim of 0.7% GNI
• current plan 0.5% in 2016-17
• 2012, $2.9 billion in aid delayed
• development through policy dialogue, training locals, goods and services and reforms

Question 2

AusAid - Indonesia

Answer 2

• 2015-16 almost 20% of total Ausaid
• aid up from 2003-10, $120 million to 450 million
• 2,000 secondary schools built 2006-11
• improving agricultural technology for 1 million farmers, income up at least 30% by 2022

Question 3

AusAid - effectiveness

Answer 3

• 2011, Brookes Institute ranked Australia second in giving aid to fragile states after the UK
• WTO in 2009: “Aus is strongly commmited to making its aid program more effective”

Question 4

ODA

Answer 4

• US largest, $30 billion 2009-11
• 5 states have met target of 0.7% GNI, Norway has 1.1, Sweden has o.07
• not met include SK (0.1), Aus (0.29), US (0.21)
• subsidies: Japanese cows get $2,700 per cow, Sub Saharans get $1.47 per person

Question 5

Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership

Answer 5

• signed by Brunei, NZ, Chile, Singapore on June 3, 2005
• aimed to reduce tarrifs 90% by Jan 1,2006 and have no tarrifs by 2015
• Chile has benefited, NZ has bought the largest dairy producer and rights in oil and gas, meaning more employment

Question 6

Trans-Pacifc Partnership

Answer 6

• TPSEP states + Aus, Can, Vietnam, US, Malaysia

- give developing states access to 4 of the top 10 largest economies