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13 - Multilateralizing preferential trade agreements: a developing country perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2012

Bernard Hoekman
Affiliation:
World Bank, Washington, DC, and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
L. Alan Winters
Affiliation:
University of Sussex and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
Richard Baldwin
Affiliation:
Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva
Patrick Low
Affiliation:
World Trade Organization, Geneva
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Multilateralizing Regionalism
Challenges for the Global Trading System
, pp. 636 - 680
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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