European Union-Developing Country FTAs: Overview and analysis

World Development

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1545-1565

  Francois, Joseph F ^a   McQueen, Matthew ^b   Wignaraja, Ganeshan ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Philippines)

Author keywords

CGE modeling; Developing countries; European Union; Free trade agreements

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EUROPEAN UNION; FREE TRADE; MODELING; TRADE AGREEMENT;

EID: 26844468510     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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