Políticas públicas de compras governamentais como estratégia de indução ao desenvolvimento local no Estado do Pará

Abstract

With the crisis of the Brazilian State, from the beginning of the 1980s, the role of implementing municipal actions and projects that contributed to the resumption of economic growth starting from the localities was witnessed. However, municipal public administrations face difficulties in making programs that include the distribution of jobs and income viable. This dissertation analyzes the government procurement policy as a local development strategy, mainly through the promotion of micro and small businesses of local base. The research covers two cases of government procurement in the municipalities of Belém and Paragominas, where a questionnaire was applied to 60 representatives of the population of Micro and Small Entrepreneurs, with the end of a parameter between these two locations. Secondary data were also collated from documentary sources of the municipal statistics of the Brazilian Service of Support to Micro and Small Enterprises; the information system of social indicators of the municipalities of the Public Ministry of the State of Pará and the Amazon Foundation of Support to Studies and Research in Pará, both of which provide socioeconomic, cultural and tax data of the surveyed municipalities. The results revealed that the surveyed entrepreneurs receive little incentive from different orders to develop their municipal-based businesses, where little has an institutional environment favorable to entrepreneurship, according to the institutional and Neoinstitutional theory. It was concluded that government procurement policies, as an element that induces local development, have little efficacy, indicating that the (neo) institutional matrix, as an anchor of local development, has little or no coverage of its foundations in the cases studied, that the analyzed samples were more favorable to Paragominas, in relation to the municipality of Belém.