Políticas públicas sociais e indicadores de desenvolvimento: estudo em Municípios de pequeno porte do Corede Missões

Abstract

Public administration is carried out in the management of public goods and services, especially those of State responsibility. It seeks to administer and manage the application of the public funds that the State has in its different spheres, as well as to enable the implementation of public policies that guarantee the fundamental rights of citizens, contributing to the promotion of development, materialized in the improvement of the quality of life, in the democratization of social relations, community participation and protection of the environment. In this sense, the present study aims to analyze the relationship between public social policies and development indicators in the small municipalities of COREDE Missões. The study is guided by the principles of the dialectic: historicity, contradiction and totality. Also, it works with secondary data related to the municipal accounts, available on the website of the National Treasury Secretariat (STN); and social and labor policies, as well as their percentages in relation to the total available, by municipality, in the a spreadsheet entitled "expenditure by function", from 2007 to 2015. From the information on the application of the public fund in social policies, it was sought to establish possible relations with the development indicators for the selected municipalities, keeping in mind the Index of Socioeconomic Development (IDESE / RS). It was observed a significant increase in the amounts invested during the period, but with a tendency to oscillate in the percentages, in relation to the available municipal budget, evidencing the intense competition in the public fund. The areas of education and culture, health and sanitation, housing and urbanism, when receiving the resources of the public fund by the municipalities, are the areas that show the most noticeable evidences in the development indicators. The application of the public fund to be a determining factor for the development of small municipalities, providing citizens with a better quality of life, and access to public services. Thus, it is concluded that there is an indication that when municipalities start to invest in the areas of basic sanitation, culture and work development indicators perform better.