The institutional challenge of the ACP/EU economic partnership agreements

Development Policy Review

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 403-416

  Borrmann, Axel ^a   Busse, Matthias ^a  

^a Hamburg Institute of International Economics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; GLOBAL TRADE; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; REGIONAL TRADE; TRADE AGREEMENT; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; TRADE REFORM;

EID: 34250665043     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: 14677679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2007.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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