But local governments' shortcomings mean that this rarely translates into reduced inequality.Decentralisation has left an administrative muddle.
The state attorney general's office says that because Texas places great emphasis on local control, shortcomings are the fault of individual districts.
You might expect Liddington to be an eloquent critic of local authorities' shortcomings and a proselytiser for the private sector, particularly since, when he worked at the Department for Education, he played a leading role in getting academies launched.
While I do not excuse local authority shortcomings, the judicial criticism of the use of section 20 and the rising levels of Human Rights Act damages awards is causing greater risk aversion, increasing care applications and draining local authority budgets of scarce resources that should be going into the early help and preventive work which Ms Tickle correctly highlighted as being so important.
A report from the European Parliament last week criticized Ukraine's local elections, citing "shortcomings which had a direct impact on the conduct and the result of the elections and which raised concerns in the voting process".
As failing schools in New York City and State have increasingly turned to costly prepackaged school improvement programs as an answer to their shortcomings, local school officials have failed to evaluate how well those programs work, according to an audit released yesterday by the state comptroller.
To overcome this shortcoming, local search (LS) operation is necessary to form the hybrid GA-LS method, with global search and local search alternating in the process of identification.
But as Peru, like other Latin American countries, decentralises many government functions, including civil defence, it is the shortcomings of local government that most worry disaster experts.
I've seen Jill Esmond, the first Mrs Laurence Olivier, as the crusading heroine of Private Information, on a mission to make her local council concede the shortcomings of the sewage system under her brand new postwar housing estate.
The newspaper, Consensus and Truth, which is in the city of Klin, has regularly focused attention on the shortcomings of local government, and the authorities have long sought to shut it down.
