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Lessons learned of Serbia in the utilization of the IPA funds with a focus on the area of infrastructural development and agriculture
Bjelić, Predrag
Popović Petrović, Ivana
Introduction: Serbia is a small developing country that is the recipient of foreign official assistance. Official development assistance (ODA) is financial assistance that developed countries direct to developing countries. This programme is in application since 1960s when developed economies have set the target to give 0.7% of their annual Gross domestic product (GDP). This target was rarely achieved but ODA flows are regular until today. Most of the assistance today is directed to trade, through WTO programme Aid for Trade (AfT).46 Since 1990s this Official development assistance has been designated for Serbia, since previous assistance were for Yugoslavia. But ODA flows for Serbia was negligible until 2000 when they started to steadily growing until 2002 which is a maximum level recorded in one year, over 2 billion euros. After these years the flows were very variable, with several peaks in 2006, 2012 and 2018. The World Bank data on official assistance flows for Serbia are presented in the following graph for the period 1994 to 2021 in current US dollars. The biggest donor of assistance for Serbia was the European Union (EU). Since 2001 more than 3 billion euros was donated in non-refundable assistance in Serbia through various projects. The EU currently donates approximatively 300 million euros yearly to Serbia. Serbia itself is actually in the top 3 countries which receive most financial assistance from the EU.
Project ID # 22310291/Title: „Visegrad Group Supports Montenegro and Serbia in the Preparation for the EU Regional policy“
engleski
2024
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Keywords: IPAfunds, agriculture, EU, financial assistance, Serbia