Comparative advantage in Thailand and Indonesia and potential free trade agreements: Implications for trade diversion

Regionalism, Trade and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific Region

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 159-171

  James, William E ^a  

^a USAID   (Indonesia)

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