EBA and the EU sugar market reform: Development gift or Trojan horse?

European Union Trade Politics and Development: 'Everything but Arms' Unravelled

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 179-202

  Brüntrup, Michael ^a  

^a GERMAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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EID: 78650049233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203934043     Document Type: Chapter

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