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   "text": "Decentralized organization has not yet displaced the centralized world: traditional incumbents still enjoy enormous market power, and the success of more decentralized systems still depends on the goodwill of the parties involved.",
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   "text": "Decentralization is not always efficient, because centralized economies of scale can create the near-optimal efficiencies for economic growth and decentralization may therefore result in the loss of economies of scale.",
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   "text": "Standardized network-based services are very difficult to improve with decentralized approaches when local technical and administrative know-how is suboptimal, and this suboptimality is worsened when the local government lacks adequate financial resources.",
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   "text": "Government decentralization at the local level can favor local elites and may overcomplicate the coordination of national policies.",
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