USAID – Decentralization Net

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[ June 1, 2021 ] Webinar Series: Decentralization and Local Development around the World Community
[ June 16, 2021 ] Launching the Local Public Sector Alliance Community
[ June 14, 2021 ] Remembering Richard Bird (1938-2021) Decentralization
[ June 12, 2021 ] New Content and Communications Manager joins Local Public Sector Alliance Community
[ June 10, 2021 ] Virtual Knowledge Exchange: Fiscal and Financial Resilience for Subnational Governments Community
[ June 5, 2021 ] Transforming urban governance using research Cities and urban services

USAID: Placing decentralization at the service of the people in Peru

December 27, 2020 LPS Initiative

Despite having one of the world’s fastest growing economies in terms of gross domestic product growth rate, Peru historically has been unable to improve its public services at the same rate. This disparity was particularly […]

USAID: Academic research and donor programming on decentralization

November 16, 2020 LPS Initiative

Beginning in the 1990s there was a wave of enthusiasm for the idea that decentralization would promote both democratic governance and economic efficiency. Throughout the 2000s, that optimism increasingly ran up against a second generation […]