Are poor management practices holding back middle-income countries? The authors look at evidence for private firms and …

average. Chronically low investment especially in infrastructure and innovation, poor management and weak intermediate skills …

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

Better school management is associated with better pupil achievement, according to CEP analysis of the quality of … management practices in schools in a range of developed and developing countries. Renata Lemos notes that the quality of school … management is related to leadership traits of the head teachers - and that management practices have a greater effect on pupil …