Garcia, Odair LopesSilva, Fabiana Costa da2016-03-042021-10-052016-03-042021-10-052015-12-11SILVA, Fabiana Costa da. A importância dos fundos constitucionais na redução das desigualdades regionais no Brasil no período de 2001 a 2014. 2015. 68 f. Monografia (Bacharelado) - Curso de Economia, Departamento de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2016.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/41722The historical conditions and the process of regional economic decentralization led to a strong disparity in the levels of per capita income and living conditions among Brazilian regions, especially between the Southeast, the Northeast and the South of Brazil.Making Brazil a country marked by profound social and economic inequalities between regions and states. The reversal of this situation is a major challenge for public policies facing the country and the solution passes through the continuous improvement of a resource allocation system between the units of the federation. The paper proposes an exploratory methodology to analyze the redistributive aspects equalizers and distribution of transfers from the State Participation Fund (FPE) and the Municipal Participation Fund (FPM). seeking to identify relationships between the funds received, and the results in terms of development of the regions, arguing that the objective of equalizing funds regions have not contributed to an improvement in inequality among the most prosperous states and the least prosperous of the Brazilian federation . Using data from the years between 2001 the 2014 show the evolution and importance of the transfer of the share of funds for less developed regions. The work thus it was found that there is redistributive in FPE and FPM, but it is not sufficient to reduce dependence on funds for the poorest ones in this period. It was noticed that the less developed states belonging to the North and Northeast, by having a little significant economic activity, and thus get less tax revenues have a high degree of dependence on government transfers as the states of the most developed regions and more structured economically, belonging to the South and Southeast, with a diversified production structure and high acquisitive power have an inverse relationship of dependence with the transfers, by obtaining the largest collections of taxes coming from the IPI and IR.openAccessEqualização FiscalDesigualdades RegionaisTransferências constitucionaisFundo de Participação dos MunicípiosFundos de Participação dos EstadosFiscal EqualizationRegional InequalitiesConstitutional transfersParticipation Fund of MunicipalitiesState Participation FundsbachelorThesis