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Regional trade agreements: blessing or burden?

Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas


There has been a proliferation of regional trade agreements around the world since the early 1990s. In a survey of the latest theoretical and empirical research on regionalism, Caroline Freund and Emanuel Ornelas ask whether we should celebrate or be concerned about this trend.


July 2010     Paper Number CEPCP313

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