global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental … characteristics of software piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low …

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 …

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 … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …

countries wishing to complement their emerging IPR regimes. -- software piracy ; governance tools ; intellectual property rights …

global timelines for common policies against business software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 … fundamental characteristics of software piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, uppermiddle- income and … ranges from 4 to 10 years. -- software piracy ; intellectual property rights ; panel data ; convergence …

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 …