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The Turn to Trade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Chin Leng Lim
Chin Leng Lim*
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
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Do International Financial Institutions Repress Development?
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 102 , 2008 , pp. 231 - 237
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2008

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* Ross Leckow did not submit remarks for the Proceedings.

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