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Contributions from
the Column
Facts and trends
“It’s still a long way to peace in Sudan”
Journalists
No new approval procedures for export credit guarantees in Germany
Drugs and development: harm reduction strategies
Smaller volume of German arms exports
Kenya, Angola: billions missing
Afghan economy growing – so is the drug trade
Health services
2/2004
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[ Smaller volume of German arms exports ]
The volume of German arms export licences decreased to 3.26 billion euros in 2002, dropping from a total of 3.7 billion euros in the preceding year. Both the German Federal Government and the Joint Conference Church and Development (GKKE) say this in their 2002 arms export reports. Around three quarters of the 2002 licences related to business with member states of the European Union or NATO, the remainder was made up of exports to so-called third countries. GKKE classes all these as developing countries, which – with a few exceptions – is what they are according to the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list. In contrast, as in its 2001 report the Federal Government discounts from that list countries with high or upper middle income and bases its statistics on a category of its own invention, which it calls “traditional” developing countries. As a result, the percentage of licences for exports to developing countries drops to just less than six percent in the Federal Government’s report. According to both the government and the churches, no licences were granted for exports to very poor countries. (ell)
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