Foreigners have always been able to study and follow practical courses in Germany long before the authorities responsible for cultural affairs abroad and those concerned with development policy began to take an active interest in these matters.

The United Nations' first development decade has not come up to expectations in Its results: neither did developing countries succeed in achieving a minimum growth rate of 5 p.c. of their GNP, nor did lndustriailsed nations use for aid the equivalent of I p.c. of their GNP. U Thant called this...

The shortage of raw materials and the difficulties of ensuring adequate supplies of primary products are subjects whose topicality has become evident to everybody at least since the energy crisis. The policy of ensuring adequate supplies of raw materials, however, raises the question of whether,...

The pros and cons of direct investment are attracting more and more attention in public discussion. In the following article, Dr Pohle, who was not only a highly successful businessman but also an influential and much respected Member of Federal Parliament, examined the possible positive and...

According to the purist view development policy amounts to the pursuit of its main objective as against those of foreign, economic and agricultural policy, i. e., to ensure that donor interests should give way as far as possible to this target. It is however self-evident that “practical...