Preferential trade liberalization: The traditional theory and new developments

Journal of Economic Literature

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 287-331

  Panagariya, Arvind ^a  

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DOI: 10.1257/jel.38.2.287     Document Type: Article

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