
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/">
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9777-8403">Bjelić, Predrag</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1994-3300">Popović Petrović, Ivana</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Montenegrin Pan-European Union</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title xml:lang="eng">Lessons learned of Serbia in the utilization of the IPA funds with a focus on the area of infrastructural development and agriculture</dc:title>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:description xml:lang="eng">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.</dc:description>
  <dc:description xml:lang="eng">Project ID # 22310291/Title: „Visegrad Group Supports Montenegro and Serbia in the Preparation for the EU Regional policy“ </dc:description>
  <dc:identifier>https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:35866</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>ISBN: 978-9940-8846-2-8</dc:identifier>
  <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode</dc:rights>
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  <dc:date>2024</dc:date>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Keywords: IPAfunds, agriculture, EU, financial assistance, Serbia</dc:subject>
  <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceProceedings</dc:type>
  <dc:source> The EU regional policy and regional policy challenges in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic, Montenegro and Serbia</dc:source>
  <dc:source>startpage: 191</dc:source>
  <dc:source>endpage: 202</dc:source>
</oai_dc:dc>