The study is being carried out in two phases: the first focusing on a regionwide analysis and the second on an in-depth examination of possible country-specific strategies for ten Asian Developing Countries

The question of Preferential Trading Areas, as we should call them in preference of the misleading phrase "Free Trade Areas" (and Customs Unions) which falsely equates them in the public mind and discourse with nonpreferential Free Trade, has never been distant from international economists'...