Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Note on Currency and Measures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The Growth of International Competition -- One: A CHANGING INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY -- Two: THE DISSEMINATION OF TECHNIQUES -- II The Venetian Industry -- Three: REGULATING COMMERCE IN...

The studies in this volume are a result of the Social Reconstruction Survey carried out by Nuffield College, Oxford between 1941 and 1944. The Survey studied the position and prospects of towns or areas in Britain in order to find out what was likely to happen to their industrial development...

Bank profits are high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to other regions. This paper uses a sample of 389 banks in 41 SSA countries to study the determinants of bank profitability. We find that apart from credit risk, higher returns on assets are associated with larger bank size, activity...