Análise do nível de desenvolvimento econômico dos municípios do estado Mato Grosso do Sul: uma comparação entre índices de desenvolvimento econômico tradicionais (IFDM-G e IDH-M)

Abstract

Economic development can be defined as the process of increasing the domestic product, linked to structural changes linked to the social, demographic, institutional and environmental dimensions. The analysis of the level of economic development of Brazilian municipalities is important to guide public and/or private policies, in this way the work aimed to analyze the level of economic development of the municipalities of Mato Grosso do Sul through the comparison between two development indices (HDI-M and IFDM-G) seeking to observe if there is and what is the degree of divergence in terms of classification between the two indices. By classifying the two indices through a categorization methodology, comparing them through Spearman's and Kendall's tau coefficients through SPSS software, and analyzing the standard deviation, we can show that there is indeed a divergence in the classification of municipalities, showing that the choice of one of the indexes as a reference in the elaboration of policies can generate different results, and that the IFDM-G is a more adequate index to measure socioeconomic development since its methodology has a greater capacity to capture the aspects present in the economic dimensions and social resulting from the range of variables used.