Analyses the impact of democratic decentralization on the chances of social excluded groups to participate in newly …

Decentralization is meant to improve access to public services, but relatively few studies examine this question … empirically. We explore the effects of decentralization on access to health and education in Colombia using an original database … covering over 95 % of Colombian municipalities. We show that decentralization improved enrollment rates in public schools and …

There has long been an emphasis on the importance of decentralization in providing better quality public services in … the developing world. In order to assess the effectiveness of decentralization I examine here the case study of Uganda …

This paper examines the decentralization process in Colombia, particularly as it relates to reforms embodied in the … incentive structures. The paper provides a summary of the basic features of the decentralization process in Colombia, including …

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