Composição dos gastos públicos e os efeitos sobre o desenvolvimento econômico dos Estados da faixa de fronteira no Brasil

Abstract

In the present work, an empirical study of the composition of public expenditures and its relationship with economic growth in the 11 (eleven) Brazilian states that are part of the border region in Brazil, from 1995 to 2010, was carried out. Border region in Brazil, and its division into the north, central and southern arcs was explained. Public expenditures were segregated by their functional classification and the proportion of expenditures in relation to total expenditures in the Public Security and National Defense, Education, Health and Transportation functions was used in the study, seeking the relation of each function in the economic growth of the states of Border region. In the present study it was verified that the expenses in the functional classification of transport have positive relation and with statistical significance in the economic growth of the border region and the expenses with health have significant, but negative relation with the growth in the period under analysis. There was a non-linear relationship between the economic growth of the border region and the functions of Security and Defense, Transport and Health, with a maximum proportion of security and defense expenditures being 6.79% , 14.78% for transportation expenses, for expenses in health functional classification, there was an opposite effect, since it has a negative effect on economic growth until the percentage of 21.39%, however from this percentage Expenditure has a positive effect.