period 2002-07, with a focus on two essential public services, education and health. We believe that the devolution of … changes. The article concludes with detailed recommendations on improving the decentralized delivery of education and health … and marginalized. The Devolution Plan made inroads toward these goals, particularly in education, but their achievement …

in the provision of health and education in developing countries. Many influential surveys have found that the empirical … infant mortality rates. Decentralization also improves preference matching in education, and can do so in health under …