@article{Habibi:28455,
      recid = {28455},
      author = {Habibi, Nadir and Huang, Cindy and Miranda, Diego and  Murillo, Victoria and Ranis, Gustav and Sarkar, Mainak and  Stewart, Frances},
      title = {Decentralization in Argentina},
      address = {2001},
      number = {1858-2016-152749},
      series = {Center Discussion Paper No. 825},
      pages = {58},
      year = {2001},
      abstract = {Human development, reflected in the status of people's  levels of health and education, affects future growth and,  in turn, is affected by decentralization. Unlike earlier  exclusive emphasis on budgetary issues, this study focuses  on the impact of fiscal decentralization on the level of  human development. It traces the origin and recent  development of revenue-sharing arrangements across  Argentina's provinces over time (1970-94). The study  regresses two indicators of health and educational status  on two decentralization measures. It highlights the link  between decentralization and human development outcomes and  suggests that devolutionary decentralization has a positive  influence on the effectiveness of public policy directed  towards an improvement in the level of human development.  Decentralization is shown to reduce intraregional  disparities and increase levels of human development. While  the paper also recognizes problems associated with  decentralization, including addressing inter-regional  disparities, the positive impact of decentralization  schemes on human development is seen to be of relevance in  evaluating the Argentine co-participation regime which is  currently under negotiation.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/28455},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.28455},
}