Growth, Reform Indicators and Policy Complementaries

We thank Francesca Pissarides for allowing us to access the EBRD database and Silas Xu for helpful research assistance. We also thank participants in the Fall 2004 seminar on International Development at Sciences Po, Paris, where the empirical work was first presented in February 2005; participants at the seminar in Universidade Nova de Lisboa, September 2005, in particular Luis Campos e Cunha, Luis Catela; participants at the invited session on Policy Complementarities sponsored by Banco de Portugal at LACEA Annual Conference, October 2005, Paris, in particular Ricardo Hausman. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect those of the OECD or its Memeber countires.