The study examines the effect of software piracy on inclusive human development in 11 African countries for which … software piracy data is available for the period 2000-2010. The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable panel … following main findings are established. First, from the FE regressions, software piracy consistently improves the IHDI and its …

This paper examines two dimensions of the software piracy-development nexus to complement existing formal literature …: (1) software piracy has a negative incidence on inequality adjusted human development; (2) the unappealing effect of …) software piracy increases literacy. Two major policy implications have been retained from the findings. Firstly, adherence to …

software piracy trajectories and dynamics in Africa. Using a battery of estimation techniques that ignore as well as integrate … harmonizing IPRs regimes in the battle against software piracy. Three main findings are established. (1) African countries with … low software piracy rates are catching-up their counterparts with higher rates; implying despite existing divergent IPRs …

With the proliferation of technology used to prate software, this paper answers some key questions in policy decision … instrumented with government quality dynamics to assess their incidence on software piracy. The following findings are established …. (1) Government institutions are crucial in enforcing IPRs laws (treaties) in the fight against software piracy. (2) Main …

autonomous rate of software piracy; consistent with the 'law and property rights' theory. (2) But for IPRs laws, the other IP … protection channels (WIPO treaties, Main IP law and multilateral treaties) reduce the incidence of software piracy. (3) In both … short-run and long-term, IPRs protection channels in civil law countries appear to mitigate software piracy more than in …

In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of …. The richness of the dataset allows us to disaggregate countries into fundamental characteristics of business software … & Central Asia, East Asia & the Pacific, Middle East & North Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean and, Sub-Saharan Africa). Our …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important … because it enables more targeted policy initiatives. We show that the sensitivity of software piracy to IPRs mechanisms is …