This paper assesses the impact of the 2005 multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial decision on duty free quota free (DFQF) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis is conducted over a sample of 41 LDCs, with data...

Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have accorded many flexibilities to the least developed countries (LDCs) in the WTO's Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement. A major LDC-specific flexibility in this Agreement that other developing country Members of the WTO do not...

The Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement of the World Trade Organization has granted major flexibilities to least developed countries (LDCs). One of these flexibilities is the exemption from the implementation of the majority of the provisions of this Agreement over a certain...