ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at economic relations between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Third World, with a particular emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that East-South economic relations differ more in scope than in substance from those between West and South. Since among the Eastern European countries the GDR is by far the most successful economically its ties with developing countries are of particular interest in this regard. Since ideological reservations have once again given way to the demands of its economy, the projects underway on this basis in which the GDR was taking part in mid-1984 were twice the total number of those completed in all previous years. The structure of trade between the GDR and its trading partners in the Third World shows the usual pattern between a highly industrialized country and Least Developed Countreis. Projects undertaken by the GDR on this basis in sub-Saharan Africa until the mid-eighties can be found in Tanzania, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
