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MAP OF COOPERATION AGREEMENTS

The Third World accounts for nearly a
third of the Community's external trade THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE THIRD WORLD
by value, a proportion that has remained
fairly stable since the mid­1980s despite
a decline in the developing countries'
export earnings, caused primarly by a DEVELOPMENT AID ­ TRADE ­ PRIMARY PRODUCTS
slump in prices for minerals (bauxite,
Iron, copper, etc.) and agricultural pro­ Active in parts of Africa since the end of the 1950s, the Community
ducts such as coffee, cocoa and cotton: gradually extended its development cooperation policy to the whole of
the Third World is the Community's prin­ Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Mediterranean countries, Asia
cipal supplier of these commodities, as it EC EXTERNAL TRADE and Latin America. It now has development or economic cooperation
is of energy products. agreements ­ depending on its partners' level of development ­ with
These raw materials, which are vitally some 115 countries throughout the Third World (see map of
important to European industry, still form agreements currently in force overleaf). The Community's cooperation
the bulk of the developing countries' policy is based on solid economic as well as historical ties. The E C
exports to the Community. The and the developing countries have interests in common, and their
Mediterranean and Middle E astern coun­ interdependence is amply borne out by the graphs showing recent sta­
tries' substantial share (45.6%) of the tistics for development aid, trade and primary products output.
developing countries' exports to the
Community is largely explained by their
sales of oil and natural gas, which
account for 53% of their trade with the EC.

With industrialization slowing in the The European Community and its

developing countries ­ especially the OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE Member States together constitute the
ACP countries ­ the proportion of Third world's leading source of official deve­
World exports accounted for by manu­ Net bilateral a n d multilateral disbursements ( 1990 ) lopment assistance: Community aid pro­
factured goods is now lower than the Total world aid : 62.6 billion USD ·" • Je per and the contributions of the
individual Member States jointly account
30% recorded in 1986. Textiles and clo­
thing are the main products (11.2% of
the total), followed by electronic
Total E C a i d : 27.1 billion U S D

fj* for more than a third of the total develop­

ment aid received by the developing
appliances, processed food products, 0.7% 0.5 % 0.1 % 0.4 % countries. Nearly two thirds of the aid
leather and hide articles and footwear. OPEC 10% received by Africa, and over half that
received by Latin America, is provided
JAPAN 14.5% by the E C, which also accounts for
The Third World Is also a major outlet for \ approximately one third of aid to
Community products, notably for capital USA 16.2% Oceania, Asia and the Middle E ast.
goods, transport equipment, processed
food and chemical products. Since 1988, 16%
however, the Community's trade balance
OTHER DONORS
In 1990 Community aid proper represen­
with the developing countries has been 43%. ted 4.8% of world ODA and 11.8% of all
In deficit and the gap Is widening (9.5 25KJ aid disbursed by the Twelve. It consisted
billion USD in 1990). primarily of grants, which are distributed
among nearly all Third World countries,
COMMUNITY AUD MEMBER S TATES 43,3% ; although the Community gives sub­
sanaran Africa greater priority than other
donors. It also devotes a larger share of
Source : Eurostat 1990 Total 100 % 37.2% 18.4% 17% 13.7% 13.5%
( in million E CU (MECU) ; 1 ECU = 1.27 USD)
its aid to agricultural and rural develop­
1
ment (including fisheries and the envi­
Excluding 1.5 billion USD of ποπ­ODA debt written off {military claims, export credits, etc.).
ronment) than the other donors.

PRIMARY PRODUCTS (1989 output in %)

EC AID
AID FOR DE VE LOPME NT PROJE CTS ill EMERGENCY
ion AID
NGO
TRADE PROJECTS

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in billion ECU

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c-i 170
specified
cs r 128
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833% 50.4% 49% 45.8% 56% 625% 66.7% 905% 97.4% 100% O 55 specified
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bilüonECU 16 6 20 45.5 42.2 30.4 26

" including Albania, Yugoslavia 8 Israel

15.7 16.5 15 25.3 7.4 6 5.2 10.6
u 10

' Gulf States, Iran S Iraq Source : Eurostat 1990 StaDex, Sysmin, trade promotion, research, etc.
 THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
AND THE THIRD WORLD
A NETWORK OF COOPERATION AGREEMENTS

Financing for curren! European Community Member States

development projects proposed (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany,
by partner countries in various Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,
economic and social sectors. Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United
Kingdom) and French overseas depart­
AID FOR NGO PROJE CTS ments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe,
Co­financing for current Martinique, Réunion).
development microprojects
carried out by non­governmental Countries and territories which have
organizations (NGOs). special relations with a Member State
(Greenland, British Virgin Islands,
French Polynesia. Netherlands Antilles,
FOODAID(1990­91) etc.).
Donations of food products
(cereals milk, and also local African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)
produce) to alleviate famine or countries which have signed the Lomé
food shortages. Convention, an overall cooperation
agreement between the European
:D NE DE Community and 69 ACP States.
DOM
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Mediterranean countries which have
signed cooperation or association
<. agreements with the EC: Maghreb
countries (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia!,
Mashrek countries (Egypt, Jordan,
Lebanon, Syria), Israel, Cyprus. Malta
and Turkey.
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Gulf Cooperation Council countries
(Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar. Saudi
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Arabia, United Arab Emirates) which
have signed a cooperation agreement
λ with the EC.
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