Official Development Assistance of Austria after 2021
- Authors: Ponomarenko A.P.1, Babintseva E.A.1
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- Issue: No 2 (2024)
- Pages: 97-112
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2454-0641/article/view/367861
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/EHPKKS
- ID: 367861
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Assistance to developing countries, or the so-called “Third World” countries, is one of the areas of foreign policy activity in modern developed countries. It is provided to recipient countries in the form of loans, grants and other transfers to solve, first of all, social and economic problems. The Republic of Austria has a small territory and population, but at the same time it also has an efficient economy that encourages a high standard of living and a status of permanent neutrality allow it to play the role of a donor country for this type of assistance. In Austria, such policy is divided into two directions: “global” and “domestic”. Despite the commitment of many countries to "global" Official Development Assistance (ODA), the Republic of Austria ranks recipient countries of financial assistance in terms of its own national interests. In particular, the largest volumes of financial assistance are provided by Austria to the countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. In this regard, the author considers the activities of the Austrian state in this area as the implementation of the most important element of Vienna’s “soft power” policy. This article is devoted to the policy that Austria pursues towards countries in need of economic, financial and humanitarian assistance. The key element of this policy is the “domestic” Austrian Development Cooperation Program (ADP), aimed at establishing economic ties and providing financial assistance to countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America (primarily the Caribbean), as well as to the other poorest countries in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Using methods of description and analysis, the article examines the historiography, foundations and essence of this policy in Austria, and also analyzes the new edition of one of the fundamental documents – the Three-Year Program of Austrian Development Policy from 2022 to 2024.
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Anatoly Petrovich Ponomarenko
Email: ponomarenko-ap@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8569-0933
Ekaterina Alekseevna Babintseva
Email: babintseva-ea@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1197-0892
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