Avaliação da eficiência dos gastos públicos na microrregião de Feira de Santana

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the efficiency of public spending and its relationship with the Municipal Development FIRJAN Index (IFDM) provided the funds invested in the micro-region of Feira de Santana, state of Bahia, from 2000 to 2010. The micro is composed of 24 municipalities and called Portal Territory of the Hinterland by the Secretary of the State of Bahia Planning (SEPLAN). Also up introduces the concepts of public spending, types, classifications, efficiency, effectiveness and efficiency, concept development and economic growth. The database was built with several explanatory variables from the data of Finance of Brazil (FINBRA), Superintendence of Economic and Social Studies of Bahia (SEI), Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the Federation of Rio Industries January (FIRJAN), related to spending on health, education, employment and income. The statistical method used was the multiple logistic regression, because this method allows us to evaluate which variables have significance in order to evaluate the relationship between independent variables and the dependent variable, whose response is binary. The obtained results indicate that spending on public investment influence the modification of the Municipal Development FIRJAN Index ( IFDM ) , however, this is not a linearity , for municipalities with high IFDM may not have high investments , which means that there are other factors that the influence . In addition, it can see that there was an evolution in the windows of all the municipalities of the micro-region, however, 23 of them continue with regular IFDM , only the city of Feira de Santana has moderate IFDM .