Distribution of tax revenue among municipalities - which are constitutionally official federal entities in Brazil - is highly unequal vis-à-vis their demands of public services. Given conurbation processes and intense urbanization in the second half of the past century, some municipalities...

Analyzing the evolution of the main revenues and expenditure government accounts, this paper describes the behavior of the public sector during the period 1890/1945. Not only because its importance in terms of the volume of resources that allocates, but also because data availability, the study...

Distribution of tax revenue among municipalities - which are constitutionally official federal entities in Brazil - is highly unequal vis-à-vis their demands of public services. Given conurbation processes and intense urbanization in the second half of the past century, some municipalities...