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This article aims to analyze which are the symbols that the National Transplant System (STN) produces to build a favorable environment for organ and tissue donation. The study is based on the analysis of symbolism in advertising discourses of Brazilian organizations that promote organ and tissue donation. A theoretical plan is presented to discuss the principles at the base of the economy of symbolic exchanges within a social logic. The article argues that this process stimulates altruistic behavior and aims to avoid the mercantile behavior around organ and tissue donation. In the empirical plan, a semiotic analysis in organ donation advertise campaigns was conducted, observing that public and private actors use a set of symbols aiming to establish subjective truths that stimulate the donation in opposition to mercantile behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recognizing the importance of social security in the arena of Brazilian social policies, especially for small municipalities, the main objective of this paper was to evaluate the impact of social security benefits on efficiency in promoting socioeconomic development among small municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais. Thus, the study uses the technique of data envelopment analysis in two stages. The survey results showed that the benefits paid by social security had a positive effect in the promotion the efficiency of municipal socioeconomic development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

National Policy, and analyses the effectiveness of Gorutuba Irrigation Public Project, in the north of Minas Gerais. The methodology is the ex post facto evaluation. Throught a quasi experimental model, by means of multivariate statistics, the Porteirinha municipality, beneficiated by irrigation project, compared with non beneficiary municipalities (control group). The Porteirinha municipality was jointed in the cluster 6, with other 13 municipals, all of the North of Minas Gerais state, what can be interpreted as an evidence of the model for control group construcion's good performance. This research showed that irrigation project partially reaches expected results. The results of this study reinforce the importance of irrigated agriculture for regional development through the impacts in the agricultural production, in employment generation and population growth. Although the indicators of municipalities reflected the occurrence of economic growth, there was no improving of social indicators of Porteirinha (municipality benefited). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A discussion around the complexity of Public Administration Theory favored the contextualization of the included tentative case study which is supplied with an instrument in search for better practices. The expectations of a public serving spirit, from the inclusion of costs on the retirement acts analysis -- delimited by the Brazilian reality of the RJ state Audit Court, preoccupied with the activity of public servers in charge of the related legal determinations compliance, inferring that the "task" besides of a technically trustful instruments, can also be a source de self esteem, due to its social merit. Its benefit toward the quality of public management, in terms of austerity and ethical zeal for the people, has oriented the theoretical debate and the instrumental construction toward a sense of sheltering theory and practice interaction. Away from managerialism, does not relegate legally instituted duties on costs. Final considerations recognize the labyrinth of Administration theories, transforming its entanglement into an instigating investigation on that challenging science-art of listening to people, respecting the res publica which belongs to him, as a permanent struggle for comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]