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 …

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 …

This paper examines decentralisation in Bolivia and Colombia to explore its effects on the uses and spatial … infrastructure to social services and human capital formation. Resources were rebalanced in favour of poorer districts. In Bolivia …, decentralisation made government more responsive by re-directing public investment to areas of greatest need. In Colombia …

paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and … poverty-orientation. In Bolivia, decentralization made government more responsive by re-directing public investment to areas … of greatest need. In Colombia, municipalities increased investment significantly as decentralization deepened, while …

I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics it unleashed in the much-noted case of Bolivia and … only decentralization, but also democracy, from the bottom up. Beginning with Bolivia, I explore the deep economic and … performance, and hence of Bolivia's overall decentralization success. I then test these ideas using qualitative data from …