Queretaro, Sonora, Colima, Estado de Mexico, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes and Quintana Roo) were more successful at implementing the decentralisation processes, which allowed them to take on a greater share of spending from their own resources (OECD, 2005). These states typically had both higher-than-average per capita incomes and greater financing capacity of their own, and were generally more industrialised with the highest levels of social security coverage. The decentralisation process was re-engaged in the mid-1990s for the remaining states and all states have now been decentralised under the new arrangements.