Until the early seventies the German Democratic Republic (GDR), in line with the CSSR and Bulgaria, was least disposed among CMEA countries to engage in cooperation activities with the West. One of the major reasons for the reserve shown by the GDR in this respect was probably that linkage...

The new forms of cooperation between Western firms and East European enterprises, begun with so much optimism in the 1970s, have disappointed the expectations placed in them. In both East and West the question as to the benefits and risks of this particular form of collaboration is now being...

China is showing interest in joint ventures in the oil, coal and nonferrous metals sector, in electricity generation, steel and building materials production, in the mechanical engineering, textile and electrical industries, in the transport sector and in the hotel trade. Our article gives an...

The spectacular opening of the People’s Republic of China to the capitalist world market and the flourishing state of East-West cooperation-up to the Afghanistan crisis-show that cooperation with more advanced industrial countries in selected fields is seen as a promising means of speeding...

Many developing countries see in joint ventures a convenient means of pursuing their economic development in their own way without forgoing the benefits to be derived from foreign investment capital and know-how. The following article presents some of the findings of an empirical study by the...

Tripartite cooperation is thought to be of cardinal importance in the ambit of East-West cooperation, at least for the future. An essential reason for this is probably the expectation that it can be used as an instrument of development aid to the benefit of the Third World. Is this expectation...