Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Decentralization and Social Policy panel, LASA 2012


The DSNG section is pleased to sponsor the following panel at LASA 2012. Please see below for information on papers, location, and time.  
 
Decentralization and Social Policy:
Service Provision & Feedback Effects
Friday 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm, Golden Gate Ballroom, Salon B

This panel examines decentralized service provision across a range of sectors, including health provision, revenue generation (tax collection), and natural resource governance (watershed management).  Among the key topics of the panel will be the question of how far decentralization has advanced and how effective it is on a variety of measures in traditionally less decentralized countries such as Ecuador and Paraguay; complementary papers examine the effects of decentralization in the federal countries of Brazil and Mexico. 
 
Chair:  Julián Durazo Herrmann, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Discussant:  Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania

1. Delivering health services to the uninsured in Mexico:
The multilevel government implementation of the Seguro Popular
Laura Flamand, El Colegio de México

2. Decentralization and Public Service Provision:
Health Decentralization in Paraguay
Cristina Rodriguez-Acosta, Florida International University

3. Negotiating De Facto Decentralization:
The Process of Local Watershed Management Reform in Ecuador
Craig Kauffman, George Washington University

4. Do Governments with Closer Ties to Civil Society Collect more Taxes?
An Analysis of Municipal Governments in Ecuador
Imke Harbers, University of Amsterdam
Joerg Faust, German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)



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