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• n  the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
• n  the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments

• Like New York, they are trying or considering experiments in decentralization, and some of the arguments for such experiments are persuasive.
• Like the President, he believes in decentralization of the public broadcasting system.
• Seizing upon Tito's experimental program of decentralization, which offered a measure of political and fiscal autonomy to Yugoslavia's six republics, Croatian nationalists .

• decentalisation
• decentralisation

• centralization

News & Articles

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• Cuba economy czar: Reforms entering critical phase
  HAVANA (AP) — Communist-led Cuba's experiment with limited capitalism is entering a crucial and transformative phase this year with the decentralization of bloated state-run businesses, the island's economic czar said Tuesday.
  July 9, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Cuba's economy czar says reforms entering crucial stage of decentralization, seek efficiencies
  HAVANA — Cuba's economic czar says the Communist-led island's experiment with limited capitalism is entering a crucial phase this year with the decentralization of bloated state-run businesses.
  July 9, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Cuba economy czar: Reforms entering critical phase - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports
  HAVANA (AP) - Cuba's economic czar says the Communist-led island's experiment with limited capitalism is entering a crucial phase this year with the decentralization of bloated state-run businesses.
  July 9, 2013 - Quincy Herald-Whig

Quotes

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• Condoleezza Rice in Raw Story
  It's fair to say that there has been a turning back from some of the reforms that led to the decentralization of power out of the Kremlin: a strong legislature, strong free press, an independent judiciary,Rice said.
• Alexei Kudrin in CBS News
  Decentralization of production and supplies to global markets will help ...... lower prices in the mid- to long term,Russian Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin told reporters.
• Meg Whitman in Berkeley Daily Planet
  Unfortunately, the experience Whitman describes - "At eBay, Meg learned how technology and decentralization can be harnessed to deliver powerful results" -has little to do with fixing California.