Desigualdades econômicas inter-regionais, capacidade tributária e esforço fiscal dos Estados da Amazônia (1970-2000): uma abordagem econométrica de fronteira estocástica

Abstract

The objective of the present work is, therefore, to present an analysis of the effects of the inter-regional economical inequalities about the interregional inequalities of the state outturn in the sphere of the fiscal federalism.The problem of the regional inequality between the areas and Brazilian states was always the main focus of the regional economists’attention. However, its is relatively scarce the studies and researches that seek to study the effects of the inter-regional economical inequalities on the inter-regional tax inequalities of the collection execute and potential of the brazilian states. For that, the results of the measurement of the capacity of the outturn of the Brazilian states were analysed, with prominence for the states of the North area, for the years of 1970 up to 2006. The methodology used to esteem the capacity outturn and to determine the state governments fiscal effort was the econometric model of stochastic border adapted for this end.