[eng] Alain Dubresson and Yves-André Fauré — Decentralisation and local development : a link to reconsider. Introduction The present dossier is an invitation to reconsider the link, which is often described as mechanical, between decentralisation and local development. The analyses issuing...

This article covers the relationships between the decentralised structure of authorities and administrations and the conditions of local development in the federative Republic of Brazil. It also explores the processes of dissolution in which communes are involved and its viability consequences,...

L'étude montre l'étendue des moyens, tant juridiques que matériels et symboliques dont disposent les municípios (communes), échelon le plus décentralisé de l'appareil institutionnel brésilien, pour orienter et soutenir l'activité économique locale ou pour peser sur les effets...

[eng] Yves-André Fauré — Decentralised public policies, blockages to local development. Brazilian experiences This article covers the relationships between the decentralised structure authorities and administrations and the conditions of local development in federative Republic of Brazil. It...

The process of decentralisation at national level and of recentralisation of South African metropolitan zones is followed, in the Cape, by a large scale public action aimed at upgrading the city to a world class status, while reducing sociospatial disparities inherited from apartheid. The first...