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...

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has been officially in business since January 19, 1971. Its major purpose is to reorganise and widen the scope of programmes for the promotion of US private investment overseas in developing countries.

Foreign investors in Malaysia were greatly disquieted when the Petroleum Development (Amendment) Act, 1975, and the Industrial Coordination Act were passed by the Malaysian Parllament. Both these enactments and the re-formulated Standard Conditions for Foreign Investments are Indicative of the...

The developing countries are caught in the cleft stick of assertion of national interests and independence, on one side, and need for an improved investment climate to attract foreign direct investment, on the other. The question facing the foreign firms is how they can safeguard their capital...