02131cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF016213 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513526379 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Cherif, Reda. Competition, Competitiveness and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa / Reda Cherif, Sandesh Dhungana, Xiangming Fang, Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (48 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question by using country-and firm-level data for a sample of 39 sub-Saharan African countries over 2000-17, as well as other emerging market economies and developing countries, and finds that an improvement in domestic competition is associated with a signficant increase in real GDP per capita growth rate, achieved mainly through an improvement in export competitiveness and productivity growth. Price levels, including of essential items, are also generally lowered with an increase in competition. Moreover, at the firm-level, evidence shows that greater competition-proxied through a decline in corporate market power-is associated with an increase in firm's investment and the labor's share in output. These effects are more pronounced in the manufacturing sector and among domestic firms compared to foreign firms. Mode of access: Internet Dhungana, Sandesh. Fang, Xiangming. Gonzalez-Garcia, Jesus. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/030 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/030/001.2020.issue-030-en.xml IMF e-Library