Relação dos gastos públicos com o índice de desenvolvimento humano dos municípios (IDHM) do Ceará no período de 2001 a 2010

Abstract

The current political and economic scene leaves the population more interested in following their leaders’ actions. Although they have access to data related to public spending through transparency tools created by the govern, they can’t truly know how those spendings are being used and their impact on improvements on their day by day. This study analyzes how public spendings impact on the Human Development Index and on it’s dimensions such as education, life expectancy and GNI individually. To confirm such result, this descriptive and quantitative research, used multiple regression to verify how the chosen variables impact on the HDI of the counties in the state of Ceará from 2001 to 2010. The results show which of those variables are significant to the HDI of the counties of Ceará, and if those impact positively or negatively on the dependent variable. It was concluded that more public spendings don’t necessarily leads to a better HDI, which means that there are other variables, besides the public spendings that were chosen in this research, that induce the Human Development Index.