Decentralising health services – the transfer of power and responsibility from the central to the local level – should help the poor if local resources, accountability and governance are in good shape. The process in China and India had negative effects because local governments remained...

This paper analyses the effect of fiscal decentralisation on health outcomes in China using a panel data set with nationwide county-level data. We find that counties in more fiscally decentralised provinces have lower infant mortality rates than counties where the provincial government remains...

La décentralisation des services de santé, c’est-à-dire le transfert du pouvoir et de la responsabilité de l’État central au niveau local, devrait être bénéfique aux pauvres à condition que les ressources, l’obligation de rendre des comptes et la gouvernance locales soient...