Political factors and the efficiency of municipal expenditure in Brazil

This study analyses how political and institutional factors affected the performance of municipalities in improving social welfare in Brazil in the period from1990 to 2000. Themodel adopts a stochastic production frontier, conditioned by variables related to the provision costs of services and those...

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Main Authors: Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Ajax Moreira
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2009-12-01
Series:Economia Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-80502009000400001