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With their growing economic power and international influence, the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are paying increasing attention to international development assistance. Although the BRICS countries started later than western developed countries, the speed of their development is staggering and their share in foreign aid is gradually increasing. The BRICS countries continue to innovate forms of assistance and cooperation in their own international development assistance, to strengthen cooperation with recipient countries, and to plan their own foreign aid work through the establishment of relevant institutions and the publication of relevant documents. But, at the same time, the BRICS countries are facing certain challenges in the process of international development assistance. This article examines the historical practice of BRICS' international development assistance, analyzes the role BRICS plays in international development assistance, and considers the future prospects for BRICS' participation.

Die Frage nach der internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und den Anpassungserfordernissen der westdeutschen chemischen Industrie bedarf der Analyse der Faktoren, die die Standorte bei der Herstellung chemischer Erzeugnisse bestimmen. Hierzu sind die außenhandelstheoretischen Überlegungen über die Bestimmungsfaktoren von Außenhandelsströmen vor dem Hintergrund der weltwirtschaftlichen Rahmendaten mit dem empirischen Befund zu konfrontieren.

First published in 1984. A conference, organized by the Austrian Institute for International Affairs and dealing with the topic "In Search of Peace and Security: The Role of the European Neutrals", was held at SchloB Laxenburg on 27 and 28 October 1983. The main purpose then had been a comparison of various historic, political, legal, economic an

The paper deals with the analysis of the legal nature of international courts' decisions and their impact on the international financial legal order. The author claims that decisions of international courts, creating no new international legal financial norms, act as an additional source of international financial law, having no autonomy, and in combination with other sources of international law, performs the following functions: 1) regulatory-prescriptive (via opinio juris of existing traditions in interstate practice in the financial sphere transforming them into international customary law); 2) regulatory-affirming (confirming the legal nature of the international agreement between the subjects of international financial legal relations which caused a disputable situation). The judicial practice on financial issues and specificity of functioning of such judicial institutions as the Permanent Court of International Justice, the International Court of Justice, the CIS Economic Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Court of Justice of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, etc. are examined. The features of the provisions of international agreements on financial issues regarding the procedure for resolving disputes between the parties of the agreement about its implementation are analyzed. The paper explores particularities of the origin and development of the idea of the creation of an international financial court. Amid modern processes of the rapid growth of the amount of crossborder financial flows in the context of globalization, which is the consequence of the implementation of numerous international financial agreements, the idea of creation of an international financial court, which was first suggested in 1935, due to the complexity of legal nature of interstate financial disputes, is an objective necessity. The following features intrinsic to decisions of international courts (including decisions on financial issues) have been identified: 1) locality (binding only on the ...

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