Although it has an acceptance on the multidimensional nature of well-being, an unequivocal definition of the term does not exist. By the one hand utilitarian perspective prioritizes of the accumulation process and restricts the relation between well-being and the qualitative aspects of the...

This paper attempts to examine the evolution of the financial conditions of Brazilian States ten years after the re-structuring of their financial debt. Re-structuring the financial debt was implemented according to a fiscal adjustment program which established targets to be periodically...

This paper tried to evaluate the increasing of the federative public spending associated with the creation of a new State within the Brazilian Federation. The estimates pointed out that each new State increases the federative expenditure by R$ 832 millions. It was also estimated that Brazilian...

This paper aims at contributing to the decision-making regarding the allocation of public resources under the Federal Legislative Power. The focus of the paper was to construct criteria that could help elect the municipal legislative council in each micro-region that has the greatest power of...

This paper developed and applied the Stochastic Frontier Geographically Weighted (SFGW) to access the tax efficiency of the Brazilian states. The estimated coefficients obtained by this method were close to those from the traditional Stochastic Frontier estimation allowing, however, the...