Gestão pública de gastos de municípios da mesorregião do Vale do Rio Doce durante a pandemia: uma análise comparativa

Abstract

In a context in which the pandemic COVID-19 brought a world-wide financial crisis, many people became unable to work. Because of this, the international market suffered variations which interfered on the public spheres, those of which faced the need to better control their revenue and expenses so that they could lesser the effects brought to the society by COVID-19. With that in mind, the present work has as its objectives to identify, analyze and compare, through the use of indicators, the way that the municipalities of Governador Valadares, Guanhães, Tarumirim and Açucena behaved during the period of the pandemic in relation to their respective expenses and revenues. In order to do that, the monetary data needed to use the indicators was collected from the digital platform SICONFI. From the collected and analyzed data, it was concluded that COVID-19 brought in fact changes to the way in which municipalities received their revenue and allocated their expenses. It is important to observe that certain areas were affected in a larger scale than others, for instance, the need to invest larger amounts of money.