Water Reforms, Decentralization and Child Mortality in Colombia, 1990-2005

"Water Reforms, Decentralization and Child Mortality in Colombia, 1990-2005" is featured in a special issue of World Development that examines how decentralization affects governance, in particular how it might increase political competition, improve public accountability, reduce political instability, and impose incentive-compatible limits on government power, but also threaten fiscal sustainability.