Decentralization of provision of public services has been an important item in the agenda of developing countries …. While some scholars and practitioners argue that decentralization is associated with improvements in provision due to higher … accountability, others note its potential pitfalls. In particular, decentralization to local communities characterized by poverty …

descriptive statistics on increased access to education and some learning and life outcomes, this paper discusses in detail how … the new roles called upon teachers can help improve the quality of education in LAC. This paper concludes with some …

returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions on type … of education (public vs. private) for each educational level (primary, secondary, technical tertiary and university … educational trajectories. The results indicate higher returns to education for those who attended private schools than those who …

investment and decentralization as two areas in which the IDB maintained presence and relevance during this period. In social … net. In regards to decentralization, cooperation was crosscutting, as the IDB worked with subnational institutions in …

not in decentralization policies and schemes, based on analysis of the recent experiences of several Latin American …

This paper considers the effects of trade unions on the education sector in Argentina and the channels of union … class days). Based on estimates of education production functions both in this paper and elsewhere, we expect this to …, education budget and teachers' salaries). Reviewing these results, we conclude that the impact of unions on students …