The spectacular opening of the People’s Republic of China to the capitalist world market and the flourishing state of East-West cooperation-up to the Afghanistan crisis-show that cooperation with more advanced industrial countries in selected fields is seen as a promising means of speeding...

Tripartite cooperation is thought to be of cardinal importance in the ambit of East-West cooperation, at least for the future. An essential reason for this is probably the expectation that it can be used as an instrument of development aid to the benefit of the Third World. Is this expectation...

From its beginnings on the DEG (German Development Company) has always been working with two aims in mind. Development policy provided one and the external economic relations of the Federal Republic of Germany the other. It is contributing to economic development by supporting investments by...