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. …

During the course of 1980 West German enterprises and private persons were responsible for approximately DM 8.16 bn in … foreign investments. The sum total of German foreign investments has now reached a level of DM 74.2 bn. Both these figures … indicate the increasing internationalisation of the German economy, at the same time suggesting that a considerable wealth of …