Política e processo orçamentário no Brasil : uma avaliação sobre a utilização dos créditos extraordinários (1995 a 2008)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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Since the 1934 Constitution, the extraordinary credit has been destined to attending to urgent demands that cannot be postponed, which needed immediate attention (public calamities, epidemics, rebellions, sedition, or external wars). The 1988 Constitution only allows it for unpredictable and urgent expenses. However, in the last 14 years the Federal Government opened approximately R$250 billion in extraordinary credit. This research, had, therefore, the objective at evaluating the use of extraordinary credit budget in Brazil, between 1995 and 2008, so as to verify if the constitutional requirements of unpredictability and urgency are being obeyed in the edition of the temporary measures and if the use of this credit allows for the evasion of public resources from the ordinary budget process. For this, a field investigation was performed, in which seventeen (17) structured and not directive interviews were applied to members of the executive and legislative body of the government, to members of the development, supervising, and control process of the Brazilian budget policy, as well as to specialists in the field of budgeting and public accountancy from the Universidade de Brasília (UnB) and the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Data was also collected from the Integrated System of Financial Administration SIAFI, from the SIGA Brazil system, from the National Congress (CN) and from sites of the Office of Federal Budget and the Presidency of the Republic on internet. For the analysis of the data collected through interviews, an analysis of content was used, in which the answers were grouped by theme and then by categories, according to identical answers of the different interviewees, as well as among the answers of the similar groups. The research pointed, haste; effectiveness; delay in the processing of the CN and liability amongst the main reasons for the frequent use of extraordinary credit. In relation to the meaning of the expressions unpredictability and urgency, the former was understood as an event that escapes prediction by human capacity. But the latter (urgency) was described as the necessity for the State to act rapidly and immediately to face urgent expenditure. We also examined the adherence of these assumptions to the extraordinary credit opened. For 70,59% of the interviewees, the extraordinary credit opened did not obey these assumptions, perception confirmed by the analysis of the extraordinary credit opened in the last 14 years. This examination showed evidence that, in most of the years, no credit obeyed those parameters.

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public budget crédito extraordinário unpredictability and urgency extraordinary credit ciencias contabeis imprevisibilidade e urgência política orçamentária budget policy orçamento público

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