Mensuração da eficiência técnica dos municípios de Mato Grosso do Sul na alocação dos recursos públicos nas funções de governo

Abstract

This survey aims to measure the efficiency of municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul related to the functions of government and available public resources. The data regardind the cities were obtained from FINBRA - Finance Brazil Database, corresponding to the year 2015. The data were analyzed using DEA - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is a quantitative method for measuring efficiency relation between inputs and outputs. The results indicate that the public efficiency can be measured by means of indicators resulting from resource management. Through the DEA analysis, the research shows that 29.5% of cities in Mato Grosso do Sul are efficient in general and 11% of municipalities are efficient in collecting and allocating their own publics resources. Further research is recomended in order to measure efficiencies of cities, states and government with major set of variables.