fierce controversy in all industrialised countries, including the Federal Republic of Germany. Advocates and opponents of … Development Policies of the Hamburg Institute for International Economics has therefore recently begun to investigate the volume …The Pros and Cons of direct investment promotion measures in overseas countries have recently become the subject of …

The internationalisation of banking in the industrial countries of the West has picked up speed since the mid …-sixties. The American banks in particular have since 1965 almost trebled the number of their foreign establishments, and German …

German industry. …

alongside this growth. A striking feature is the increased interest shown by German firms in the countries of East Asia. …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 …