Regional free-trade areas: Sorting out the tangled spaghetti

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 508-527

  Garnaut, Ross ^a   Vines, David ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive liberalization; Free trade area; Open regionalism; Open trading arrangements

Indexed keywords

FREE TRADE; GLOBALIZATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONALISM; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; TRADE AGREEMENT; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; WELFARE IMPACT;

EID: 35848964607     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grm027     Document Type: Article

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