| Sumario: | Federalism is a useful tool to conciliate conflictive interests, by economic, political, religious, ethnic reasons, among others, in different countries. Accommodating these differences, federalism has transformed more actors in decision-makers, distributing prerogatives to subnational levels and to central government central. In its constitutions or in its infra-constitutional legislation, federal systems create mechanisms to mitigate and to equilibrate socio-economic differences among regions. Are these instruments effective? To what extent do federalisms manage to narrow the gap between the more and less developed jurisdictions? ¿How is possible the co-existence between the effort on equality among regions and the grant of autonomy for the regions to create their own public policies? This working paper aims to analyze, with the federalism theories, the relation between that phenomenon and the socio-economic equality in the territory, paying attention to link between institutional factors and the human development of a certain region in a federal country.
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