Front Matter Page
African Department
Contents
I. Introduction
II. Datasets
A. The IMF Monitoring of Fund Arrangements (MONA) database
B. The World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) database
C. Other macroeconomic data
III. Empirical Strategy
A. Calculation of firm-level productivity
B. Calculation of structural reform indexes
C. The consolidated sample
D. The multilevel mixed model
IV. Estimation Results
A. Baseline
B. “Strong reformer” vs. “Weak reformer”
C. Specific structural reforms
D. Conditional factors
E. Complementarities between structural reforms
V. Concluding Remarks
References
Figures
Figure 1: Composition of successful reforms over time, all sample
Figure 2: Average labor productivity growth and successful reforms, over 2006-14
Tables
Table 1. Description of structural reforms indexes
Table 2. Summary statistics
Table 3. Impact of the structural reforms on labor productivity growth
Table 4. Effects of specific structural reforms on firm-level productivity—Conditional factors
Table 5. Substitutable or complementary effects of structural reforms
Appendices
Appendix A – Sample balance checks
Appendix B – Sensitivity analysis
Appendix C – List of countries and statistics