Competitive liberalization : the proliferation of preferential trade agreements

In recent years, preferential trade agreements (PTAs) have proliferated rapidly, creating a spaghetti bowl of bilateral treaties. A growing share are North-South- FTAs between developed countries and emerging markets. Why the sudden proliferation of these agreements, when most-favoured-nation tariff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manger, Mark S.
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16896