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Aid from the Federal Republic of Germany to Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Rolf Hofmeier
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THE Federal Republic of Germany is one of the major pillars of the group of western industrialised capitalist countries, and this largely determines its rôle in international financial institutions, and its attitudes to the global economic system and market structures. The F.R.G. is second in the world, behind the United States, expressed by its share of the monetary volume of total international trade, but the proportion of exports relative to G.N.P. is much higher than in America and slightly more than in Japan.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 1986 , pp. 577 - 601
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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Page 577 note 1 Federal Statistical Office and Ministry of Economic Affairs, Bonn.

Page 578 note 1 For a comprehensive assessment of Africa's economic importance for the F.R.G., see Hofmeier, Rolf and Schattner, S. et al. , Die wirtschaftliche und rohstoff-politische Bedeutung Afrikas und seiner einzelnen Regionen für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Hamburg, 1981).Google Scholar

Page 578 note 2 For more information about the F.R.G.'s current policies vis-à-vis Africa, see the coverage in Legum, Colin (ed.), Africa Contemporary Record (London and New York), 1983–84 onwards.Google Scholar

Page 579 note 1 A more detailed presentation of German aid policy is given by Hofmeier, Rolf, ‘Bonner Entwicklungspolitik. Grundlinien und Rahmenbedingungen’, in Steinweg, R. (ed.), Hilfe+ Handel = Frieden? Die Bundesrepublik in der Dritten Welt (Frankfurt, 1981), pp. 240–69,Google Scholar and by Hofmeier, Rolf and Schultz, S., ‘German Aid: policy and performance’, in Stokke, Olav (ed.), European Development Assistance, Vol. 1, Policies and Performance (Tilburg, 1984), pp. 206–38.Google Scholar

Page 581 note 1 B.M.Z., Grundlinien der Entwicklungspolitik der Bundesregierung (Bonn, 04 1986).Google Scholar

Page 584 note 1 B.M.Z., Vierter Bericht zur Entwicklungspolitik der Bundesregierung (Bonn, 03 1980), p. 25.Google Scholar

Page 587 note 1 Source: B.M.Z, Entwicklungspolitik Jahresbericht, 1983 (Bonn, 1984), and 1984 (Bonn, 1985).Google Scholar

Page 588 note 1 Source: same as for Table 1.

Page 590 note 1 B.M.Z., Sechster Bericht zur Entwicklungspolitik der Bundesregierung (Bonn, 03 1985), p. 41.Google Scholar

Page 600 note 1 Hofmeier and Schultz, op.cit. p. 236. A much more critical view of the F.R.G.'s rôle in Africa is taken by Schulz, Brigitte and Hansen, William, ‘Aid or Imperialism? West Germany in Sub-Saharan Africa’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), 22, 2, 06 1984, pp. 287–313.Google Scholar