The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and 2014 based on Malmquist indexes constructed upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) distance functions. The motivation for the less usual consideration of efficiency frontiers for...

This work is an outcome of a broader research agenda that aims at assessing the efficiency of some remarkable Brazilian Government's social programs. Here, efficiency means the actual (observed)/optimal (targets) ratio for both inputs and outputs that the programs use to achieve their...

This paper tries do motivate the discussion of evaluation problems in the context of social programs. Initially, the text explores the point of view that social programs should be recognized as complex organizations. In the case, there are multiple objectives, decentralization, and coordination...

This paper aims at exploring a data set related to Brazilian Higher Education Census for the years of 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 as well as data from the Coordination for Higher Education Personnel Improvement (Capes) concerning master and doctoral degrees activities. The data are explored in the...

This paper presents an exercise on comparative efficiency evaluation of 43 Brazilian federal university hospitals (HUs). The methodology used is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), along with statistical non-parametric procedures and specific tests. As direct extensions of DEA, the paper also...

Brazil's Unified Health System [Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)] accounts for most inpatient care in Brazil. Based on data from the two largest governmental health care surveys for 1997, 1998 and 1999 this work describes some aspects of the Brazilian hospital system. We focus our analysis on four...

O trabalho desenvolve, e aplica, um arcabouço capaz de avaliar algumas dasprincipais características das filas para tratamentos de saúde com internação noSistema Único de Saúde (SUS), incluindo o Sistema Nacional de Transplantes. Foirealizado um estudo qualitativo e quantitativo do tempo...

This work develops a simple and comprehensive framework to improve the allocation of public resources to public and private hospitals from the standpoint of public hospital profitability in the presence of income inequalities. The paper illustrates the direct impacts that publicly-funded...