Asia Pacific Development Journal
Subtitle: No.1, June 2004
Publisher: United Nations Pubns
Published: December 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9789211203998
Subjects: Reference - General; Business & Economics; Business/Economics
First sentence: The paper advances the view that while free trade and trade liberalization under the multilateral framework is the first best policy on purely theoretical grounds, the theory of the second best in the form of regional, plurilateral and bilateral free trade arrangements is at work in the real world.