Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149916 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/15/055
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
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 Fixed Effects (FE) and Tobit models in order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity and limited range in the dependent variable. The modeling exercise is based on the inequality adjusted human development (IHDI) and its constituents. The following main findings are established. First, from the FE regressions, software piracy consistently improves the IHDI and its constituents. Within this framework, the positive relationship between inclusive human development and software piracy is driven by all its constituents. Second, for Tobit regressions, the positive relationship between software piracy and inclusive human development is confirmed exclusively in the IHDI and literacy specifications. Within the latter framework, the positive relationship between software piracy and inclusive human is driven fundamentally by the literacy rate. Policy implications are discussed.
Subjects: 
Software piracy
Human development
Intellectual property rights
Panel data
Instrumental variables
JEL: 
K42
O34
O38
O47
O57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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