EU/ACP economic partnership agreements: Impact, options and prerequisites

Intereconomics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 169-176

  Borrmann, Axel ^b   Busse, Matthias ^b   Neuhaus, Silke ^a  

^a Hamburgisches Welt Wirtschafts Archiv   (Germany)

^b NONE

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EID: 25144454077     PISSN: 00205346     EISSN: 1613964X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10272-005-0148-1     Document Type: Article

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23. For a detailed disussion of the issue see also Axel Borrmann, Harald Grossmann, Georg Koopmann, op. cit.
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