Purpose: According to a widely accepted narrative, managerial reforms associated with new public management (NPM) originated in wealthy market economies and liberal democracies and were then promoted globally. However, scientific and systematic cross-national evidence of NPM practices has...

Despite ample studies on New Public Management (NPM), the degree to which NPM is institutionalized in practice remains largely a mystery. In this study of Singapore's education system, the data illuminate the institutionalization of NPM, revealing that certain dimensions of NPM are more...

According to a widely accepted narrative, managerial reforms associated with so-called New Public Management originated in wealthy market economies and liberal democracies, and they were supposedly promoted globally. What has happened to their international prevalence, however, remains...

This Note shows how, through a process of consultation between the World Bank Transport Sector and Private Sector Department, some focus on transport has been introduced into the Global "core" module of the Investment Climate Survey. The Note also shows the scope for achieving much more focus on...