) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis … a positive effect on LDCs' export performance on primary products; the average effect on manufacturing exports has been … statistically nil. In the short and medium term, this decision has exerted a positive effect on LDCs' merchandise export performance …

provide a new quantitative welfare measure by dividing the manufacturing sector into import and export sub-sectors. We then … surprisingly, that the gains to the import sector are larger than the gains to the export sector. Moreover, the size and the …