Nova proposta para a estimação da corrupção estadual no Brasil

Abstract

Different approaches emphasize the role of savings account (physical or human) as one of the main variables to understand the long-term economic growing process. Inside the new efforts to understand the growing process is the positive economic's politic line which focus in the politic variables, the determinants of success or failure for the so desired growing, searching in the government failures, the reasons for economic failure. In empiric terms, the existent researches which relate corruption with economic growing are related with countries analysis. Few are the researches which explore the correlation inside a country. This dissertation propose a methodology for estimation of the corruption in different brazilian states in the period from 1998 to 2008. For the estimation of this corruption, it was utilized the method of the main components to create an index of the regional corruption for the country. Being the main database for this model is the "Cadastro de Responsáveis com Contas Julgadas Irregulares (Cadirreg)" - Register of Responsables with Accounts Judged Irregulars