Increasingly, German firms are adopting the practice of setting up production units abroad. The public is not altogether in favour of this trend. It is argued that in so doing German industry is creating a stick for its own back and may possibly—in the long term— prejudice its own export...

The rapid change in the European energy sector has mainly affected the coal. It is more and more threatened to lose its importance. The importance of exploitation and transport means increasing competitivenes of non-European suppliers, and technical progress enables the economical use of new...

Not so long ago, Senator Dirksen, Republican, and his Democrat colleague, Senator Hartke, have placed before the US Senate a complete bunch of new restrictive bills on Imports, intending to cut all Imports by laying down reduced quotas. They were to shield all the branches of the US economy that...

After almost twenty years of unparalleled economic growth, the Federal Republic of Germany has experienced a setback in 1967. The Federal Republic's Government is attempting to overcome this crisis with purposive economic policies. INTERECONOMICS had the opportunity of speaking to the Federal...

We put a number oJ relevant questions on the influence exerted by financing, procurement, and planning of military supplies on the general business climate, the growth, and the technical development to Helmut Schmidt, Chairman of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Party in the Bundestag at Bonn.

Something about the immense importance of UNCTAD II can be inferred from the hypothetical assumption that the joint attempt of 132 nations to build a “world without poverty, misery, and despair” might founder, and from sober consideration of the effects of such an event. Numerous...

The devaluation of the British Pound and the most speculation in gold and the dollar have lead to a hectic activity on the part of the monetary authorities in the industrial countries of the West. It is unlikely that anybody should have regarded the splitting up of the gold market—necessary...

The UN-Economic Commission for Europe, to which today the large majority of the economically most advanced states in the world belong, has in the 21 years of its existence done work that cannot be gauged merely by tangible results. The Commission has played a vital part in creating the essential...