Educational policies and household behaviors interact to determine educational outcomes. Much educational literature, including that on decentralization, focuses almost exclusively on school resources and ignores substantial household resources devoted to schooling. The failure to consider how households change resource allocations may lead to important misunderstandings of decentralization eff...

Fiscal decentralization implies a transfer of resources (tax revenues) from the federal government to the provincial governments (which were previously being spent by the former). Those in favor of decentralization would argue that this is conducive to human development due to a host of reasons not least because local governments are believed to be more in touch with local needs, tastes and cul...

This paper presents different models that describe health determinants, services, and systems. It highlights the important model developed by Contandriopoulos, proposing a separation between the health status and health care circuits. The article is intended as a contribution to the field of comparative analysis with a new theoretical, methodological, and evaluative approach. Problems were iden...

This thesis takes the position that decentralization is a dynamic process in constant transition in Third World countries between centralization and decentralization. The author uses an historic approach to explore the process of decentralization as it affects local governments, particularly historic-cultural influences which have had a negative impact on the development of local government ins...

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Taking account of the potential simultaneity between terror and decentralization, our results show that expenditure decentralization robustly reduces the number of terror events in a country, while political decentralization h...

The global drive towards decentralization has been increasingly justified on the basis that greater transfers of resources to subnational governments are expected to deliver greater efficiency in the provision of public goods and services and greater economic growth. This paper examines whether this is the case, by analysing the relationship between decentralization and economic growth in 21 OE...

We congratulate Duncombe and colleagues for their interesting review concerning the role of the geographic information system (GIS) for dengue surveillance. They provide examples, particularly from the developing countries, showing the various functions of GIS to automate spatial identification, visualization, analysis, and decision making aiming to assist dengue-related public health actions. ...