Skip to main content

Main navigation

  • Topics
    • Themes

      • Firms
      • Cities
      • Energy
      • State
    • Current issues

      • Climate change
      • Gender equality
      • AI and data
    • Initiatives

      • Cities that Work
      • State Fragility initiative
      • Tax for Growth
      • SGB Evidence Fund
      • Agri-SME Evidence Fund
      • Energy Insights and Innovation Lab
      • Climate and Growth Initiative
  • About
    • Impact
    • Governance
    • People
    • Annual report
    • Our funders
    • News
    • Careers
    • Contact us
    • Policies
  • Local ecosystems
    • Resident PhD fellowship
    • Mentorship programme
    • Local researcher impact
    • Visiting lecturers
    • Our partners
  • Where we work
    • Bangladesh
    • Ethiopia
    • Ghana
    • Jordan
    • Mozambique
    • Pakistan
    • Rwanda
    • Sierra Leone
    • Tanzania
    • Uganda
    • Yemen
    • Zambia
    • India
  • For researchers
    • Funding
    • Data sets
    • Researchers directory
    • Funded project documents
  • Publications
    • Growth briefs
    • Evidence and strategy papers
    • Publications glossary
  • Blog
  • Events
    • BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course
    • Firms, Trade, and Development Conference
    • LSE Environment Week
  1. / IGC
  2. / All Multimedia

What is holding firms back?

Video 30 Nov 2016 Firms

Chris Woodruff, IGC research programme director, explains why improving management practices is critical for the development of the private sector in developing countries.

Authors

Christopher Woodruff

Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford

Share

This video has been featured in

Small and growing businesses

In focus

More from IGC

Firms, Trade, and Development Conference

Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2026

10–11 September 2026 Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Upcoming Event
Firms, Trade, and Development Conference

PEDL Early-Career Researchers Workshop 2026

10 September 2026 09:00-13:00 Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Upcoming Event

The labour market between firms: How sharing workers shapes hiring in Ugandan manufacturing

Zachary Kuloszewski
Policy brief

Diagnosing the barriers to retail sector productivity in Zambia

Ajay Shenoy, Heather Huntington, Brenda Samaniego de la Parra
Blog
Themes
Firms

Footer main

All Projects All Multimedia All In focus

Footer secondary

IGC AI Playbook for Government ↗ VoxDev ↗ Jobs of the World ↗ Ideas for India ↗

Stay up to date

Subscribe to our newsletter

and follow

International Growth Centre

London School of Economics and Political Science Sir Arthur Lewis Building (SAL), Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom

[email protected]

Funded by

UK Aid Logo
© IGC 2026 Design and development by Soapbox
  • Accessibility statement
  • Cookies
  • Privacy policy