Análise comparativa da qualidade do gasto público em educação nos municípios de Mato Grosso do Sul para os anos de 2006 e 2016

Abstract

Despite still needing advances, education in Brazil has evolved a lot over time, which may have contributed to the growth and development of the country. In the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, the same thing has happened. Thus, the present work aims to analyze the quality of public spending on education in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the years 2006 and 2016. For this, an indicator of the quality of public spending on education was calculated. This indicator was created from data on student performance and spending per student. Public spending on education was measured by the ratio between spending on Elementary Education and the number of enrollments in the public elementary school network. As an indicator of educational performance, the FIRJAN Index of Municipal Development in the area of education was used. The ratio between the educational performance indicators and the expenditure spent on education is the expenditure quality indicator, which allows the classification of the municipalities of Mato Grosso do Sul for the years 2006 and 2016. Thus, it was possible to verify that lower expenditures result in better quality of municipal spending on education, which shows that the quality of spending may be related to the management of public resources applied.