Management

Outsourcing the management of public hospitals in Brazil to private operators increased hospital output and productivity without harming quality or equity, expanding access and reducing mortality, with the gains depending critically on the managerial...

Existing efforts to promote upward mobility in low-income countries focus on broadening access to education. However, evidence from Ethiopia shows that professional socialisation (learning professional norms) may be a key constraint to this mobility,...

In Mexico, better management improves firm efficiency, but a range of factors limit well-managed firms from expanding and gaining market share – reducing firms’ incentives to upgrade their practices.

What do we know about the implementation infrastructure in governments? How can we learn more, and what benefits would improved government analytics have for citizens?

Low-cost interventions such as executive education courses can improve firms’ financial practices and decision making, and trigger economic development

Letting workers provide feedback on their managers leads to significant reductions in worker turnover and increases in team productivity

Evidence from Ethiopia shows that interning in a management role for a month leads to higher wage earnings and can help some people run profitable businesses

Management interventions are shown to have significant and positive short-term effects. But do these effects still persist 8 years later?

Chris Woodruff explains why improving management practices is critical for the growth of the private sector in developing countries.