A common presumption is that decentralization is prone to a potential pitfall owing to the greater vulnerability of … local inequality and poverty: accordingly decentralization will tend to increase capture in high inequality districts and …

local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with …. The contributors to Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries examine this institutional … transformation from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, offering detailed case studies of decentralization in eight …

A commonly alleged pitfall of decentralization is that poverty, socio-economic inequality and lack of political …