Analysis Between Asean and Apec
ASEAN and APEC are two organisations that are involved with the aid, stability and economic growth of all countries associated with them. ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations and includes countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand along of course with Australia. APEC is the Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation and they focus on working to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers across the Asia-Pacific region, creating efficient domestic economies and dramatically increasing exports. The two demographics that I have chosen to compare are Burma and China. Burma and China both come from either ASEAN or APEC and I am going to compare the two on aid, defence, migration and trade.
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The Australian Government, through the Australian Agency for International Development, has provided almost 30 years of development assistance to China. AusAID continues to work in partnership with China to build on these achievements and provide expertise to help China in its development reform agenda. Australia assists China with aid for environment and health. With the rapid growth and development of China in the recent decades has caused severe environmental problems. Constant demand of the natural resources to bring about rapid industrialisation and urbanisation has led to high levels of pollution, ecological degradation and water shortages. Over the past decade Australia has set up a forefront of aid operations to deal with this situation and of the 7 projects so far from 2002-2008 a total of 5 have been completed with Australia donating $2.08 million towards water entitlements and trading activity, $12.25 million to the Qinghai forestry resources management, $9.1 million to Kars environmental rehabilitation and $14.9 million has gone towards the water and agricultural management in Hubei. All of these environmental projects have added up to Australia donating a staggering $38.32 million dollars
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The Australian Government, through the Australian Agency for International Development, has provided almost 30 years of development assistance to China. AusAID continues to work in partnership with China to build on these achievements and provide expertise to help China in its development reform agenda. Australia assists China with aid for environment and health. With the rapid growth and development of China in the recent decades has caused severe environmental problems. Constant demand of the natural resources to bring about rapid industrialisation and urbanisation has led to high levels of pollution, ecological degradation and water shortages. Over the past decade Australia has set up a forefront of aid operations to deal with this situation and of the 7 projects so far from 2002-2008 a total of 5 have been completed with Australia donating $2.08 million towards water entitlements and trading activity, $12.25 million to the Qinghai forestry resources management, $9.1 million to Kars environmental rehabilitation and $14.9 million has gone towards the water and agricultural management in Hubei. All of these environmental projects have added up to Australia donating a staggering $38.32 million dollars
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