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Fighting software piracy: which IPRs laws (treaties) matter in Africa?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

. (1) Government institutions are crucial in enforcing IPRs laws (treaties) in the fight against software piracy. (2) Main …

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Fighting software piracy in Africa: how do legal origins and IPRs protection channels matter?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

common law countries. (4) Formal institutions are instrumental in the fight against software piracy through IPRs protection …

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Fighting software piracy: which governance tools matter in Africa?

Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2012

This article integrates previously missing components of government quality into the governance-piracy nexus in exploring governance mechanisms by which global obligations for the treatment of IPRs are effectively transmitted from international to the national level in the battle against piracy....

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Harmonizing IPRs on Software Piracy: Empirics of Trajectories in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

In the current efforts of harmonizing the standards and enforcement of IPRs protection worldwide, this paper explores software piracy trajectories and dynamics in Africa. Using a battery of estimation techniques that ignore as well as integrate short-run disturbances in time-dynamic fashion, we...

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Global dynamic timelines for IPRs harmonization against software piracy

Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2013

This paper employs a recent methodological innovation on intellectual property rights (IPRs) harmonization to project global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental characteristics of software piracy based on...

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Global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of business software piracy: benchmarking IPRs harmonization

Asongu, Simplice A.; Antonio, Andrés - 2014

In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of current efforts towards harmonizing the standards and enforcements of Intellectual Property Rights (henceforth IPRs) protection worldwide. Our empirical exercise is based on 15...

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The Impact of Software Piracy on Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio Rodríguez - 2014

This paper examines two dimensions of the software piracy-development nexus to complement existing formal literature. It empirically assesses the incidence of piracy on the Human Development Index (HDI) and its constituents and then the instrumentality of Intellectual Property Right (IPR)...

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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … why the Acemoglu & Johnson (2005) justification provided for the measurement of property rights institutions (PRI) is …

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Institutions and Poverty: A Critical Comment Based on Evolving Currents and Debates

Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2014

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …

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An Empirical Note on Tribalism and Government Effectiveness

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

This study assesses the relationship between tribalism (the tribalism index) and government effectiveness (per the World Bank) in 65 countries using cross-sectional data averages from 2000-2010. This study finds that countries with high-tribal populations generally enjoy bad governance in terms...

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