The failure of pat solutions, based on a highly centralized decision making process of channeling budgetary resources and forced savings to state and local governments, led to a situation in which financial difficulties became one of the main reasons of the deteriorating urban infrastructure and...

This paper aims at assessing the health care services in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro's municipalities. The evaluation is performed through the combination of non stochastics efficiency frontiers with regression models encompassing municipalities resources and outputs. The optimal...