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Development Associate and Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Department of International Development
01 July 2012
Anila Channa and Jean-Paul Faguet
We review empirical evidence on the ability of decentralization to enhance preference matching and technical efficiency in the provision of health and education in developing countries. Many influential surveys have foun... Read more...
01 June 2011
Jean-Paul Faguet
The most important theoretical argument concerning decentralization is that it can improve governance by making government more accountable and responsive to the governed. Improving governance is also central to the moti... Read more...
01 March 2006
Jean-Paul Faguet and Fabio Sanchez
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 eff... Read more...
01 August 2005
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 fi... Read more...
01 June 2004
With strong conceptual arguments in its favor, decentralization is a popular and growing policy trend across the world. And yet dozens of empirical studies have failed to find convincing evidence that past reforms have w... Read more...
