Os gastos sociais e os índices de desenvolvimento socioeconômico dos municípios do Corede Central no período de 2007 a 2013

Abstract

The improvement of living conditions and individual well-being has become one of the main objectives of the state in recent years. Governments use social spending - such as spending on education, health, housing, sanitation - to satisfy the basic needs of the population in order to promote a better quality of life for its citizens. This improvement in the living conditions of people, in addition to income growth, entail socioeconomic development. This study aims to determine if social expenditures made by municipalities in education and health are related to the degree of socioeconomic development of their populations. It starts with the assumption that a greater amount of resources applied in social areas involves improvements in the socioeconomic development of the population that received such resources. Through correlation analysis, it is verified if social spending on education and health made by the Central COREDE municipalities presents correlation with their socioeconomic development indices - IDESE - from 2007 to 2013. The analysis results do not allow us to state that higher social spending on education and health are accompanied by increases in IDESEs municipalities, but it is observed that municipal spending on health showed greater association with IDESE than municipal spending on education.