I am looking for recent literature on decentralization. How it works especially in the context of Asia, Africa and Latin America? what success and failures have been found?
There are plenty of materials on decentralization. You have already identified the geographical focus which is global South. Now I think you need to focus on what aspect of decentralization you are thinking about. Is is financial decentralization, decentralization of governance or what? I guess once you are sure about your focus, the first step will be to take help from a search engine or data base and go deeper gradually.
Can any one help me to understand that what are the lessons on the advantages and disadvantages of having centralized and decentralized governing systems