Bangkok agreement and BIMSTEC: Crawling regional economic groupings in Asia

Journal of Asian Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 105-121

  Kelegama, Saman ^a  

^a Executive Director and Fellow   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Economic integration; F15; International trade; O53; Regionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012372901     PISSN: 10490078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1049-0078(01)00075-6     Document Type: Article

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