CIDE-5105 Public Management and Decentralization
The design and put into force of public policies requires an administrative infrastructure that ensures that governmental decisions are taken to practice, as it offers inputs for such decision making. This infrastructure is, at the same time, the object of public policies pointing at creating conditions to meet the goals that the State has set in the most efficient and effective manner. The promotion of development, the reduction of poverty, the search for equity, the control of environmental destruction, are main objectives of the State, requiring proper functioning of the public administration. Within the same context, the inequality in the levels of territorial development within the country is a problem to be addressed by the State in its public policies for development. Decentralization is one of the most significant changes in the organization of the Colombian State during the last decades, and continues to be a topic center of continuous debate. Given its nature encompasses political, financial, and administrative reforms that affect the State and the national territory as a whole. Currently, most of social expenditure takes place in territorial entities.
Instructor
Maldonado Alberto
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