, legislated and co-financed by the federal government. This paper aims to measure relative efficiency of the operation of the Cras … later in order to improve their performances. In addition, the paper aims to foster the use of efficiency measures, since … information related to efficiency. …

efficiency and under which determinants municipalities' personnel expenditures are correlated to increases in health service … influential on the technical efficiency for the Brazilian municipalities. [...] …

efficiency and more localized experiences of secondary innovation. …

efficiency of public services offer using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In order to do so, level of expenditures in health … main determinants of the observed efficiency are. Thus, this paper highlights two cumulative issues that municipalities as … inhabitants on the one hand, and efficiency and its determinants to transform those resources into services on the other hand …

for estimating efficiency of the distribution sector of electric energy in Brazil. For this purpose, Bayesian inference is … applied in order to estimate a stochastic cost frontier capable of contemplating the temporal dynamics of efficiency. The … consideration of this point is fundamental because the studies carried out to evaluate the efficiency of the electricity sector have …

clean energy. The state remains an important actor in the energy sector, in the search for energy security, efficiency and …