Budgetary decisions in confronting the pandemic: changes in the public agenda of Brazilian municipalities (2013 – 2020)

• Autor(a) principal: Giacomel, Lucas dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Cate, Lidia Ten
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Controle (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistacontrole.tce.ce.gov.br/index.php/RCDA/article/view/774
• topic: public agenda; municipalities; public expenditure; pandemic; public budget; agenda pública; municípios; despesa pública; pandemia; orçamento público

This paper aims at identifying changes in the municipal public agenda in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Budgetary decisions were analyzed within the scope of public expenditures of Brazilian municipalities between 2013 and 2020, using descriptive statistics, and evaluation of the evolution and calculation of the proportion of sub-functions of municipal competence. When comparing the 2020 results with the historical series, some ruptures in the pattern of public spending were identified: while epidemiological surveillance and urban infrastructure sub-functions showed significant increases, spending on Elementary Education had a strong decrease. On the other hand, some areas sensitive to health management had little changes. The study also contributes to mapping characteristics of the municipal public agenda, indicating areas sensitive to budgetary changes in crisis contexts.