The intervention of the State has the intention to foment the development local. The objective of this article is to argue this capacity of intervention for the improvement of the conditions of inequality in the Paraná State, by means of an analysis cross section of the Paraná cities. The research was applied, descriptive and quantitative, with analysis of the data for the year of 2000. The study it evidences that the public finances not yet represent an effective paper for change of the socioeconomics inequalities, but affect the social pointers positively.
Local development; Municipalities; Paraná; Public finances
