What impact has decentralization had in Latin America? Political decentralization returns financial responsibility to the regional or state levels of government, a change of direction that can destabilize centrally established fiscal and budgetary targets. The question is how to reconcile enhanced democratization with the fiscal discipline demanded by the international marketplace.
Analyses by economic experts, combined with real-life experiences of practitioners from a number of Latin American countries, provide the reader with a stimulating expos of the risks and benefits to economic development of the new decentralizing trend.
