Chapter 3 Regional Trade Agreements
ISBN: 978-0-76231-296-2, eISBN: 978-1-84950-402-7
Publication date: 18 August 2006
Abstract
This chapter reviews the evolution of thinking about regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the policy developments reflected in three waves of RTAs during the last half century. Desirable and undesirable features of RTAs can be identified, but the central message concerns the ambiguity of outcomes. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the role of the nation state and of multilateral institutions and the scope for intermediate levels of organization created by RTAs.
Citation
Pomfret, R. (2006), "Chapter 3 Regional Trade Agreements", Fratianni, M. (Ed.) Regional Economic Integration (Research in Global Strategic Management, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 39-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1064-4857(06)12003-3
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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