COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE MUNICIPAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX AND FIRJAN MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT INDEX IN THE METROPOLITAN REGION OF THE PARAÍBA VALLEY - SP

Abstract

The municipal development indexes support the decision-making of public managers for the implementation of public policies and resource allocation. The use of different methods to compose the indexes can generate different results, which will guide the decision making process. The general objective was to compare the indices - IDH-M and IFDM - of the 39 municipalities and subregions of RMVale and to explore their variables, in order to highlight the municipalities that are most distinguished from the average. In order to reach the proposed objective, SPSS 25 Software was used, based on the analysis of descriptive statistics, represented by scatter plots and tables for the visualization of the research data analyzed through the quantitative methodology. The results obtained identified at least five municipalities in each area of ​​human development that stood out from the mean both upwards and downwards. Likewise, three more vulnerable sub-regions and two subregions with good overall assessment were identified. As a conclusion, the results point out that identifying vulnerable sub-regions and proposing a general solution is fragile, since there are municipalities that are very well evaluated in vulnerable regions, just as there are vulnerable municipalities in well-evaluated sub-regions, which should be considered in regional policy. Results also show that the isolated study of human development areas should be considered to identify vulnerabilities and inequalities in each area.