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This paper examines the link between fiscal decentralization and poverty alleviation in Sudan, since the move to federalism in the mid 1990. As a central component of poverty is to reduce inter-regional inequalities in income and improve social indicators inherited from the centralized systems, we focus our analysis on trends in regional disparities in poverty and social service delivery, by looking at the evolution in federal and state budgetary outlays on education, health and water. The findings of the paper suggest that after more than five years of fiscal decentralization, total spending on the social sectors is still very low in Sudan and there is only evidence of decentralization of spending on health, but not education. More crucially, decentralization has thus far not led to a marked improvement in social service delivery in Sudan. Some indicators such as infant mortality, malnutrition and adult illiteracy rate have improved over this period, yet most other important indicator
