Financial efficiency at public administration: the case of western region

Proper management of government budgets ensures sustained economic growth of the governed entities; so the purpose of this research is to determine the degree of financial efficiency of the public administration of the states that make up the Western region of Mexico. The main results shows that the analyzed states continue to maintain a strong dependence of federal resources, the most autonomous state followed by Queretaro Aguascalientes. Regarding the investment capacity to Aguascalientes and Colima is seen as the best states weighted in this area; Michoacan is the state with more bureaucratic cost (44.76%) followed by Guanajuato (34.83%) and Jalisco (33.32%); while states that exceed 100 from the sum of these two indicators are on or are spending Michoacan first followed by Nayarit, Jalisco, Guanajuato and Zacatecas.