Effective market access for least developed countries' services exports

Building on a study “LDCs Services Waiver–Operationalized?” commissioned by UNCTAD in 2016, the current analysis presents and reflects on the pilot review, undertaken in late 2017, of four LDCs’ services trade and their interests under the waiver. By looking at the specific situations and challenges of service providers in these LDCs, the study takes the waiver process as a context and devise specific responses, whether incremental improvements or complete solutions, to these challenges.