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Foreign aid has often been considered as one aspect of the world-wide confrontation between East and West and one might therefore wonder to what extent the neutral European countries have an aid policy of their own reflecting their status of non-alignment. The following article tries to give an answer to this question by analysing the aid policies and efforts of Austria, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland.
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Development Assistance Committee of the OECD. The Members of the Committee which provide about 95 p.c. of total resource flows to developing countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Finland is not a Member of the Committee.
Other official flows consist mainly of official export credits and IBRD bond purchases.
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Bartsch, J.M. Aid programme of the neutrals. Intereconomics 6, 212–215 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02927080
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02927080