Análise da eficiência técnica dos municípios paraenses recebedores de compensação financeira pela exploração mineral

Abstract

Given the expressive natural wealth of the state of Pará, and its immense mineral activity that provides a large volume of collection of Financial Compensation for Mineral Exploration (CFEM), for the economic use of natural resources, it is understood as interesting to investigate the revenues of the municipalities of the State, in order to investigate if these are efficient, and if they bring better conditions to their populations. Thus, this work has the general objective of measuring the technical efficiency of the municipalities of Pará that collected CFEM royalties in the year 2017. The specific objectives are: a) to verify the budgetary and socioeconomic conditions of the municipalities of Pará that collect the CFEM; b) identify the technical efficiency of the municipalities that receive CFEM and those that do not in three areas (economic activity, education and health); c) compare the results between the two types of municipalities; and d) identify the main factors that contribute to the efficiencies found. To fulfill the proposed objectives, the following methods were used: a) Propensy Score Matching, in order to make the two groups of municipalities, collectors and non-collectors, statistically comparable; b) Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), to measure the efficiencies of the municipalities; and c) Truncated Regression with bootstrap, used to determine the positive and negative factors that contributed to the efficiencies obtained. The results achieved showed that, in relation to efficient municipalities, the non-collectors of the CFEM (32) were the majority in relation to the collectors (26), showing that higher levels of public revenues do not necessarily mean better living conditions for the population. In addition, it was found that the income variable is of paramount importance for the development and access to the three areas analyzed, and a possible improvement in its distribution could significantly contribute to reducing poverty and expanding the possibility of access to services. quality basics.