Decentralisation, recentralisation and performance accountability: Building an operationally useful framework for analysis

Development Policy Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 405-431

  Gershberg, Alec Ian ^a,b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Education; Health care; Mexico; Nicaragua; Social policy

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL POLICY;

MEXICO; NICARAGUA;

EID: 0032466720     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7679.00071     Document Type: Article

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