So how are Developing countries going in implementing their TRIPS obligations?

While we're on the economic side of IP, Catherine Saez reports on research by Carolyn Deere ...

here.

Apparently, a book will be published sometime in 2008.

Economists, apparently, long puzzled over why countries which are net importers of IP (does that identify any country you can think of?) sign up to stronger IP protection.  According to an Algerian diplomat:

most African countries had inherited colonial IP systems and had joined the TRIPS Agreement without having participated in negotiations. Moreover, he said, “there was big pressure on the developing countries during the TRIPS negotiations and it is still the case.”