Public Investment, Human Development and Decentralization Venezuela

The main subjects of this report are public expenditures, decentralization and human development. The report analyzes the provision of public resources assigned to social sectors in states of the country and their relationship to progress and deprivations in human development. In addition, the report continues and complements the main issue of the previous report: human development and decentralization, in regard to the effect of decentralization on the efficacy and efficiency of public expenditures to promote human development.