municipal efficiency: a study in Sao Paulo State / Eficiência municipal: um estudo no estado de São Paulo

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

The Brazilian Major Law from 1988 brought several innovations to the governmental structure, notably in the financial aspects. In relation to the public revenue, it altered the revenual profile between Federal, State and Municipal spheres. In relation to the public expenses, it altered deeply the Governmental Agenda, understood as the group of obligations to which the State is submitted. However, many factors, as from environmental nature – like the international economic shocks from the 90 decade; as from internal nature – principally the ones referring to State’s reform, took the Municipalities to assume several responsibilities that were not clearly defined in the Agenda, so not being accompanied by the necessary intergovernmental revenues resources. The difference between the public expenses realized by the municipalities and the volume of their own resources collected locally determine what the literature calls resources hiatus. This hiatus’ analysis, when partial, can conduct to incorrect conclusions. Many studies point out distortions in the municipal public financial system, since the expenses’ super dimensionality to the influences caused by the intergovernmental revenues system in the local collect efforts, what makes their own revenues lower. This study analyses, from the municipal management perspective, the existence and the dimensionality of the hiatus’ resources. For this, it searches for an initial approach of two concepts that must be considered together: the concept of exploration efficiency – that refers to the capacity of exploring its own revenue basis; and the concept of transformation efficiency – that refers to a municipality’s capacity of transforming the resources that it has into quality of life. To make the concept of efficiency operational, the municipalities of São Paulo State were bracket together according to the concept of centrality and were submitted to the methodology of data envelopment analysis (DEA). The results showed that the municipalities have low exploration efficiencies of the revenue basis (43%) and high value in the transformation efficiencies (91%). The study also concludes that the enlargement of the quality of life in the municipalities goes through the alteration of the intergovernmental revenues system due to the low values of their own revenues that the municipalities can reach.

ASSUNTO(S)

finanças municipais eficiência nas organizações public management and quality of life qualidade de vida finanças públicas revenual efficiency fronteira eficiente eficiência pública municipal finances

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