02198cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF018705 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484373088 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Nose, Manabu. Road to Industrialized Africa : Role of Efficient Factor Market in Firm Growth / Manabu Nose. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018. 1 online resource (39 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 After a decade of rapid growth, industrialization has lost ground with shrinking manufacturing sector and high informality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper explores how land market and labor regulations affect factor allocative efficiency and firm performance in SSA. Using pooled data on firm balance sheets for 40 countries in SSA, the results identify significant land and labor misallocations due to limited market allocation of land and inappropriate regulatory policies. Using variations in ethnic diversity and the intensity of regulatory actions to peer firms at subnational level as instrumental variables, local average treatment effects show large productivity gains from factor reallocations, especially for marginally productive firms. Panel data results for Nigerian firms confirm factor market inefficiency as a principal driver of declining productivity, while showing that the 2011 minimum wage reform increased firm size. The results imply that improving formal regulation is critical to support firm growth at the stage of weak legal capacity, while informal sector monitoring gets effective as legal capacity develops. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/184 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2018/184/001.2018.issue-184-en.xml IMF e-Library