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

We explore the effects of decentralization on education and health in Ethiopia using an original database covering all … the 1970s-80s were followed by federalization, decentralization, rapid growth and dramatic improvements in human … development. Did decentralization contribute to these successes? We use time series and panel data analyses to show that …

We explore the effects of decentralization on education and health in Ethiopia using an original database covering all … the 1970s-80s were followed by federalization, decentralization, rapid growth and dramatic improvements in human … development. Did decentralization contribute to these successes? We use time series and panel data analyses to show that …

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 …

effects of decentralization in Bolivia. We find strong evidence that devolving resources and power to local government has (i …This paper reviews some of the more important rationales for decentralization to date, examines their theoretical … underpinning, and the goes on to describe the elements of a nwe theory of decentralization which might take us far in our …

Does decentralization change policy outputs at the local level? If so, for better or worse? Do such changes reflect … some local governments respond well to decentralization while others respond badly? These are some of the most important … questions surrounding the issue of decentralization, which remain open despite a large related literature. This paper seeks to …

. 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 …

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 …