Preferential trade agreements in Asia: Alternative scenarios of "hub and spoke"

ERD Working Paper Series

Volumn , Issue 83, 2006, Pages 1-39

  Zhai, Fan ^a  

^a ECONOMICS AND RESEARCH DEPARTMENT   (Philippines)

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