Subject(s): Decentralization and infrastructure -- Measuring infrastructure gaps- quantity and quality perspectives : Infrastructure gap and decentralization, trends and quality of decentralized public investment -- Fundamentals in flux- functions, finance and equalization for decentralized public investment : Principles and practice, financing infrastructure, capital infrastructure and equity objectives in decentralized systems -- Sectoral perspectives : Investing in Health infrastructure - how decentralization matters, educational infrastructure, school construction and decentralization in developing countries- key issues for an understudied area, rural roads- challenges of decentralized implementation -- Investing into invisible- management and coordination of decentralized public investment : Challenge of operating and maintaining infrastructure, multi-tier monitoring of infrastructure, coordination of infrastructure investment across levels of government -- Political economy and corruption challenges : Political economy of local infrastructure planning, decentralized provision of public infrastructure and corruption -- Infrastructure- economics, public investements, decentralization in government, intergovernmental fiscal relations