Financing of Pará Federal Universities in the Context of Fiscal Adjustment: 2014-2021

• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, André Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Silva, Adeildo Telles da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: FINEDUCA - Revista de Financiamento da Educação
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/fineduca/article/view/127717
• topic: Financing; Federal Universities; State of Pará; Fiscal Adjustment; Financiación; Universidades Federales; Estado de Pará; Ajuste fiscal; Financiamento; Universidades Federais; Estado do Pará; Ajuste Fiscal

The study aims to analyze the implications of the fiscal adjustment policy for the financing of the 4 (four) federal universities located in the state of Pará, in the period 2014-2021. The data were extracted from the Federal Budget Execution, according to Reports made available by the Federal Chamber of Deputies, organized by the Nature of Expense Group, with updated values, January 2022, by the Broad National Consumer Price Index. It is identified that the economic policy underway in Brazil, whose central framework is the Constitutional Amendment N. 95/2016, has as its central purpose to expand the allocation of the public budget to the financial sector of capital, with the consequence of reducing the resources allocated to policies social. In the specific case of the federal universities of Pará, the fiscal adjustment policy implies drastic cuts in Investments and Other Current Expenses, makes unfeasible the appropriate conditions for the development of teaching, research and extension activities, deepening the historical process of denial of the right to higher education in the state and region. In short, the reversal of this movement implies strengthening the opposition to the current economic model, with the struggle to expand state responsibility in maintaining social policies, including public higher education.