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The past few decades have seen rapid improvement in development outcomes around the world. Senegal halved the population living under $1.25 a day, achieved gender parity in primary education, and made great strides toward reducing child mortality. These gainsthe result of high-profile objectives like the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and a broader push to expand basic service infrastructureare often studied comparatively across countries. Mali and The Gambia were on track to meet the MDGs in 2015, for example, while Senegal lagged behind with neighboring Guinea and Guinea-Bissau. Yet as the preceding chapters have documented, it is just as critical to look within countries to assess how international agendas fare in practice. Following the confluence of decentralization, political liberalization, and the push to improve living standards, I suggest a novel source of subnational variation: progress may be made unevenly within single countries as a function of historically inherited and spatially uneven attributes.The remaining pages of this book briefly summarize the argument before offering reflections on the implications my findings hold for ongoing decentralization reforms.

Author

Martha Wilfahrt

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781009286176