education outcomes. In Colombia, decentralization of education finance improved enrollment rates in public schools. In Bolivia … the remarkable case of Bolivia with the more complex case of Colombia to explore decentralization’s effects on public …The effects of decentralization on public sector outputs is much debated but little agreed upon. This paper compares …

. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness … and poverty-orientation. I first summarize economic data on the effects of decentralisation in each. In Bolivia …, decentralisation made government more responsive by re-directing public investment to areas of greatest need. In Colombia …

I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of … decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local … comparative analysis to test the theory's predictions with qualitative and quantitative evidence from Bolivia. The combined …

. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and … did this. In Bolivia, decentralization made government more responsive by re-directing public investment to areas of …Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals …

government in infrastructure, health and education provision, and has implications for foreign aid. …

decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly … are more likely to choose decentralization. Using three datasets of French and British firms in the 1990s, we report …