Recent global changes have placed regional integration at the centre of Africa's political and economic agenda. This Atlas is both a driver and the result of strategic thinking on regional integration in West Africa. Containing maps, statistics and analyses, it describes the West African region,...

Making consumption patterns sustainable is a prerequisite to achieve the goal of sustainable development. Ten years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, it is time to ask: are OECD countries moving towards sustainable consumption? What are the best policy options to effectively promote...

This paper deals with the problem of how the risk perception among retail customers is affected by the consumer protection regulation on the financial market. Through a questionnaire survey, we have measured the effect of selected consumer protection measures on banking or investment decisions...

Part I: Safety and the industry -- Introduction -- Providing safe products and food safety -- The meat industry -- Part II: Concerns about animal production facilities -- Producing beef, dairy, and pork products -- The production of chickens -- Wild and farm-raised seafood -- The humane...

The present study examined the anticipated technology service quality of private commercial banks in Bangladesh, with a particular emphasis on the satisfaction of e-consumers regarding the banking technologies and services offered by their respective banks. Three hundred fifty-five data were...

This paper studies how fiscal policy affects loan market conditions in the US. First, it conducts a Structural Vector-Autoregression analysis showing that the bank spread responds negatively to an expansionary government spending shock, while lending increases. Second, it illustrates that these...