The essence of administrative and territorial reform decentralization in Ukraine is to move away from a centralized model government the state, ensure ability local self-government build an effective system power organization based on principles subsidiarity, omnipresence financial self-sufficiency self-government. purpose article identify areas for improving effectiveness administrative-territ...

Decentralization of the electricity sector has mainly been studied in relation to its infrastructural aspect, particularly location and size generation units, only recently more attention paid governance aspects. This article examines power (de)centralization operationalized along three functional dimensions: political, administrative economic. We apply this framework empirically assess changes...

vii 1. Why Should We Worry about Decentralization? 1 2. Decentralization: A Complex Phenomenon 4 Why Is Decentralization Happening? 4 What Is Decentralization? 4 What Are the Implications of Decentralization? 6 Successful Decentralization Depends on Institution-Specific Design 7 3. Designing Decentralization: The Building Blocks of Fiscal Federalism 10 Assigning Expenditure Responsibilities 10 ...

BACKGROUND The Brazilian health reform process, following the establishment of the Unified Health System (SUS), has had a strong emphasis on decentralization, with a special focus on financing, management and inter-managerial agreements. Brazil is a federal country and the Ministry of Health (MoH), through the Secretary of Labour Management and Health Education, is responsible for establishing ...