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Public security in Brazil: Efficiency and technological gaps

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  • Francisco Soares de Lima

    (Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte-UERN)

  • Emerson Marinho

    (CAEN/UFC, Brazil)

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This article analyzes the technical efficiency, the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and the technological gap in public security services in Brazilian States. The order-m frontier is used for results estimation. The TFP variation is built by decomposing the Malmquist productivity index into technical efficiency, scale efficiency and technological variation. More than 50% of the federative units were considered technically inefficient. Out of the 27 federative units, 12 presented a positive total productivity while all others suffered total productivity losses. Productivity gains in public security are more related to scale aspects than to efficiency improvements and technological progress

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  • Francisco Soares de Lima & Emerson Marinho, 2017. "Public security in Brazil: Efficiency and technological gaps," Economia, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics], vol. 17(1), pages 129-145.
    • Handle: RePEc:anp:econom:v:18:y:2017:1:129_145
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