Published 2009
“…Neither of these ideal-type models adequately accounts for an empirical puzzle associated with the
ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA). Althought AFTA is acknowledged as a project of open regionalism aimed at attracting FDI to Southeast Asian region, its member surprisingly chose to accord foreign investors full market access and national treatment privileges at least ten years later than to ASEAN national investors in AFTA's investment liberalisation component programme. …”
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