Incoordination and federative inequalities in Brazil with COVID-19: Analysis of the States’ fiscal situation in 2020

• Autor(a) principal: Peres, Ursula Dias
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Pereira dos Santos, Fábio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/83742
• topic: COVID-19, fiscal federalism, inequalities, state governments, federal incoordination; Covid-19, federalismo fiscal, desigualdad, gobiernos estatales, falta de coordinación federativa.; Covid-19, federalismo fiscal, desigualdade, governos estaduais, descoordenação federativa.

Brazil is a federative country marked by historical economic and social inequalities, despite institutional and political efforts by the central government, remarkably after the redemocratization and the 1988 Constitution. These structural inequalities undergo moments of worsening as a result of critical economic and fiscal situations. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought, since the beginning of 2020, enormous health, social, economic and political challenges for state governments, economically weakened by the recession started in 2014 and by the federal policy of permanent fiscal austerity, constitutionalized by the debt ceiling approved in 2016. This article seeks to show that the fight against Covid-19 during the year 2020 was marked by vertical and horizontal federal incoordination, leading to unequal, insufficient, and inefficient results in federal fiscal aid policies to state governments.