!!!Entwicklungshilfe

Development Aid (development co-operation), name for all private and 
public activities for supporting and promoting economic and social 
development in developing countries. The legal basis for public 
development aid is the Development Aid Act of 1974. In Austria public 
development aid includes bilateral services (financing of projects and 
funding students from abroad, refugee aid, supplying food and disaster 
aid) and credits (financial loans, projects financed together with the 
World Bank etc.) as well as multilateral services (grants to 
multilateral organisations). In 1993 the total sum of public 
development aid amounted to ATS 6,326.31 million or 0.30 % of the 
gross national product. In 1993 approximately ATS 626 million of 
Austria´s development aid (Three-Year-Programme) went to the 
following regions: priority countries (Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Cape 
Verde, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, Nicaragua and Bhutan) and 
co-operation countries (Burundi, Kenya, Namibia, Senegal, Zimbabwe, 
Tanzania, Nepal, Pakistan, Guatemala, Costa Rica and El Salvador). 
Internationally, Austria´s contributions amount to the average 
of the 21 OECD member countries. In Austria there are numerous 
private development aid organisations, whose projects are partly 
subsidised by the Government (OeED, OeAD, OeIE, adc-Austria etc.); 
churches also play an important role in development aid ("Bruder in 
Not", "Dreikoenigsaktion" etc.). In addition, Austria supports 
reforming countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

!Literature
Oesterreichische Forschungsstiftung fuer 
Entwicklungshilfe: Entwicklungspolitik, Berichte, Analysen, 
Informationen, 1994.


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