This work aims to verify if the national responsible fiscal management standards have
contributed significantly to a possible change in the trajectory of Pará towards development. To
this end, the following specific objectives were conceived: a) to analyze the historical institutional formation of the State of Pará in the Amazonian context, with emphasis on the
recent institutional scenario; b) Investigate the main responsible fiscal management indicators
outlined in the post-1988 Brazilian conjuncture; c) Verify the influence of the federalist model
on the conformation of the national, regional and state institutional matrix; d) contrast the
socioeconomic and fiscal management indicators of the State of Pará, from 2011 to 2020. The
discussion has been considered important, since these standards have occupied a prominent role
especially with regard to the discussion related to interrelation between social and fiscal
responsibility. To achieve its objectives, the research will have as its central theoretical
landmark the general neoinstitutionalist precepts of Douglass North, to be complemented by
converging conceptual contributions. The methodology adopted was an exploratory,
qualitative-quantitative, bibliographic and documentary approach, so that the inductive method
will be used to assist in understanding the object of research and in achieving the respective
proposed objectives. The data collected refer to the period between 2011 and 2020. The
hypothesis initially proposed was that the mere formal compliance with Pará's fiscal
management rules has not contributed significantly to the improvement of development
indicators at the state level. In the conclusion there was the confirmation of the hypothesis,
given that the good results obtained by the State of Pará, regarding the responsible fiscal
management criteria, did not necessarily represent a favorable institutional change in
development, so that there were no major advances regarding the indicators of the state social
sphere. The dissertation also proposes a draft legislative indication, to be sent to
parliamentarians who make up the Pará bench in the Federal Senate, aiming to motivate the
competent parliamentary committee to conduct studies to subsidize consequent legislative
proposition that culminates in the modernization of the Federal Law of Fiscal Responsibility.
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