The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its rules of origin: Generosity undermined?

World Economy

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 829-851

  Mattoo, Aaditya ^a   Roy, Devesh ^b   Subramanian, Arvind ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPORT; FREE TRADE AREA; MULTIFIBER ARRANGEMENT; TRADE PERFORMANCE; TRADE RELATIONS;

AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041812987     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9701.00550     Document Type: Article

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