Decentralization, Social Rights, and Community Participation in Combating Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (program), April 22-23, 2001

This Research Workshop will address two major social policy issues that are increasingly interwoven, namely, an ongoing concern with poverty and inequality, and the risks and opportunities that accompany current decentralization policies as responsibilities are being shifted from states to lower levels of government, to NGOs, and to community organizations.