Urban centers grew in number and population during the 1980s as a result of an administrative decentralization program that featured the creation of upazilas.

An industrial decentralization program also brought new urban jobs so that by 1975 the traditional exodus from the region had halted.

The Staten Island representative will have an important voice in helping to shape the future of school governance by moving the decentralization program forward.

The free performance is made possible in part by funds from the decentralization program of the State Council on the Arts.

Then, public spending shot up with a constitutionally mandated decentralization program in the 1990's.

The 2006 constitution planned to convert many of the districts into provinces under a decentralization program.

Pro-government candidates won a majority of the posts, setting in motion the President's ambitious decentralization program.

Thanks to a decentralization program instituted in the early 1980's, these governments have larger budgets and new powers to grant public works contracts.

Advocates for the decentralization program said the number of candidates met their desire for contested elections across the city.

Germany supports rural water supply and sanitation as part of its support for Ghana's decentralization program.