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Winkler, Donald R.; Rounds, Taryn – Economics of Education Review, 1996
Chile's 1981 decentralization reforms kept most educational finance responsibility with the Ministry of Education, but transferred service-delivery responsibility to municipalities and nonprofit private schools. This paper examines this reform's effects. Municipal finance, tied to fiscal capacity, has created inequities in school expenditures.…
Descriptors: City Government, Decentralization, Developing Nations, Educational Change