Historically, government in the Latin America and Caribbean Region has been highly centralized. In the past decade, a few countries have legislated devolution and sharing of important responsibilities to subnational governments, and, currently, most countries are either implementing that...

El presente articulo tiene por objeto analizar las caracteristicas y efectos mas importantes de la reforma de las empresas estatales en America Latina, a fin de obtener conclusiones que ayuden a orientar futuros programas de esta indole. Para efectuar un estudio a fondo se escogieron tres paises...

Evaluating decentralization in terms of three economic criteria - social efficiency, technical efficiency, and equity - the paper argues that some decisionmaking (about finance and teacher recruitment) should be provided for at the local level, and some (about school organization and curriculum)...