Toward a Pan-Arab free trade area: Assessing trade potential effects of the Agadir agreement

Developing Economies

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-345

  Péridy, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPORT; FREE TRADE; MODEL; TRADE AGREEMENT;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NORTH AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 27144465979     PISSN: 00121533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1049.2005.tb00948.x     Document Type: Article

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