Este artículo da cuenta del proyecto CEPAL/GTZ dirigido hasta su fallecimiento por Gabriel Aghón desde la División de Desarrollo Económico de la CEPAL. El artículo muestra que la emergencia de iniciativas de desarrollo económico local no se explica únicamente como consecuenciadel avance...

This book is about inventing successes and good practices of governments that are "closer to the people." Numerous examples throughout Latin America indicate-often despite macroeconomic instability, high inflation, and strong top-down regulation-that subnational actors have repeatedly achieved...

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are an innovative institutional model to channel financing and knowledge to developing countries. In Latin America, the balance of forces between competition and collaboration among MDBs and other sources of development finance have formed a system that is...

School autonomy and parental participation have been frequently proposed as ways of making schools more productive. Less clear is how governments can foster decentralized decision making by local schools. This article shows that across eight Latin American countries, most of the variation in...