Bulletin n. 3/2011
February 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Rodrigues-Silveira Rodrigo
    Descentralización y focalización del gasto social en los municipios brasileños
    in Latin American Research Review , Volume 46, Number 3, 2011 ,  2011 ,  69-92
    The intense process of decentralization of some social policies observed in Brazil since the 1980s has not given rise to the diminution of the regional inequalities in terms of those policies’ attention to local necessities. On the other hand, in the past years, the success of the Bolsa Família conditional cash-transfer program—with centralized management and focused attention on the most impoverished—has fostered the interest on evaluating what provision strategy is able to offer the most efficient results in terms of the cost-necessity relationship. The examination of the social policies based on two central dimensions (centralization-decentralization and universalized-focused) has revealed that centralization and focused coverage present better results than decentralization and universalized coverage.
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