fierce controversy in all industrialised countries, including the Federal Republic of Germany. Advocates and opponents of …, the motivation, and the success of German investments in the "Third World". The following report discusses the first …

German industry. …

German direct investment abroad last year showed a bigger increase than in any previous year. There are signs of … certain interesting changes getting under way in regard to the aims as well as the structure of German investment activity … alongside this growth. A striking feature is the increased interest shown by German firms in the countries of East Asia. …

-sixties. The American banks in particular have since 1965 almost trebled the number of their foreign establishments, and German …

most important Latin American countries which on an average of the last 15 years accounted for more than 75% of the German …