Influência dos gastos públicos no crescimento econômico dos municípios do Ceará

Abstract

This paper aims to explain the theme of public expenditures and their relationship with economic growth, bringing an approach to national and international literature and an analysis of the influence of certain expenses by function on economic growth municipalities in Ceará. Such expenses would be with: administration and planning, legislative, costing personnel, assistance and welfare, and health and sanitation. For this analysis, we used panel data from a sample of 73 municipalities out of 184 municipalities in Ceara in the period 2002 to 2005, in a dynamic approach according to Arellano and Bond (1991). And as a theoretical model, we adopted an extension of the production function of Barro (1990). Your goal is just trying to find the municipalities of Ceará, what types of expenditures would be influenced positively or negatively on economic growth (GDP per capita municipal). The data in this study were obtained from the Institute of Applied Economic Research - IPEA, the Institute for Research and Economic Strategy of Ceara - IPECE, and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics-IBGE.