Ranking de Competitividade dos Estados: uma análise para o estado de Alagoas a partir da abordagem de políticas baseadas em evidências (2015-2021)

Abstract

The present work performs an analysis of the growth of the state of Alagoas from the perspective of the Competitiveness Ranking of States, a tool developed by CLP, Public Leadership Center, made to classify and stimulate competition between states of Brazil, bringing as a theoretical reference the concepts of indicators and synthetic indexes in their essence, their applications and how they will be used. In its methodology, the work addresses an empirical study of an exploratory nature, estimating the weights of each indicator in its pillar so that their respective importance could be classified, and then measuring their impacts on the respective pillars and on the general result of the ECR. Also in the study, the pillars that the state of Alagoas had a significant growth were identified, namely: Human Capital, Education, Infrastructure, Market Potential, Security and Fiscal Solidity. From these pillars, a search for public policies was carried out in which the government used data and evidence that then justified this leverage of positions. It can be concluded, then, that after a change in the focus of the government, where there was a greater focus on this Ranking project, the state had a significant improvement, as it resorted to data and evidence that until then had been left aside, and this search it also returned in more efficient policies both for the government, in terms of the budget, and for the population in the social and effective scope.