"Managerial technology" is as important as "medium", "labour-intensive" and other technology in the LDCs. This article describes the situation and some of the problems in the field of industrial costing, giving suggestions for solutions and exemplifying with research results obtained in Brazil.

The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the collapse of the East German state in 1989. It took about...

Das reale Bruttosozialprodukt in den Industrieländern ist im ersten Halbjahr 1990 mit einer laufenden Jahresrate von etwa 2,5 vH gestiegen. Damit hat sich die wirtschaftliche Expansion seit Mitte 1988 merklich verlangsamt (Schaubild 1); dies war von den wirtschaftspolitischen Instanzen...