Do multinational enterprises act in developing countries as a motive force for progress or do they perpetuate colonialism by different means? The fierce controversy on this question still continues, fuelled not only by basic ideological differences but by dearth of empirical evidence. Prof....

The demand for control over transnational corporations forms part of the demands for a New International Economic Order. The statements about the question of effective means of control are however so far vague and in the context of the demands for a New Economic Order even contradictory. Until...

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...

This article offers a contribution to the topical discussion of multinationals. It describes the quantitative and qualitative identification criteria for these enterprises and analyses the internationalisation process of German firms.

This paper estimates the effect of government investment on private investment in a sample of 39 low-income countries. Fluctuations in a predetermined component of disbursements on loans from official creditors to developing country governments are used as an instrument for fluctuations in...

This working paper presents the results of the 2016 OECD-DAC Survey on amounts mobilised from the private sector in 2012-2015 by official development finance interventions, in particular in the form of guarantees, syndicated loans, shares in collective investment vehicles, direct investment in...