EU Preferential Trade Policies and Developing Countries
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am grateful to Mathew Tharakan for many helpful comments on an earlier draft and to Eric Reinhardt for providing a concise summary of his ongoing joint research on the Generalized System of Preferences. In addition to the references cited in the paper, this paper has benefited greatly from a number of websites that offer information on various EU preferential trade arrangements, especially those relating to developing countries.
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