Decentralization is tightly linked to education and healthcare reforms through financing of these spheres. Besides, education and healthcare are the most obvious criteria for voter evaluation of the job a local government has done. The foundation of reform was laid in 2015, when predefined financing of each school or hospital was replaced by educational and medical subventions. The subventions are distributed between local governments by formula which includes population size and a few other parameters.
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Ilona Sologoub, Tetyana Tyshchuk: Where to study and to find a doctor?
A doctor examines a patient at the Eurolab medical center in Kyiv on June 5, 2017.
