Making Decentralisation Work in Chile
Towards Stronger Municipalities
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges confronting Chile’s centralised growth model and recommendations towards developing a more integrated territorial approach, capable of mobilising regional productivity catch-up potential in order to strengthen the role of regions and municipalities.
The Chilean government has launched an ambitious decentralisation agenda, aimed at empowering municipalities by providing them with the legitimacy, financial resources, human capacities and tools required to improve their autonomy and performance. This study seeks to assist the government by covering several dimensions, looking at municipal responsibilities, fiscal and human resources, equalisation mechanisms, local public service performance, citizen participation, and co-ordination mechanisms across levels of government.
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Executive summary
The Chilean government requested that the OECD conduct a comprehensive analysis of the country's municipal system, identifying the main challenges and recommending policy options for reform in the framework of the current governmental decentralisation agenda.
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