Desigualdad en Colombia y los factores que la generan

Abstract

The present study focuses on a problem that conditions the growth and development of countries: inequality. This research serves as an exercise in reflection, whose results allow us to better understand the origin or behavior of different factors associated with the levels of inequality in the country; It is expected that the results that have been achieved with this research will be the basis for studies of any nature that seek to establish focused actions and strategies, in order to overcome the inequality indexes in the country, having as a reference point the degree to which Different social and economic factors especially associated with state investment affect the inequality index measured by the Gini Coefficient. In this sense, this research seeks to solve the research problem around to what extent different social and economic factors generated inequality in Colombia during the period 2003 - 2018? To solve this question, the present study explores different economic theories with which those factors that can generate inequality or increase the gap in income are determined. In this way they are able to characterize from their indicators during the stipulated period (2003 - 2018) to, subsequently, make use of an econometric model that allows to establish the level of incidence of the different socioeconomic factors in the Coefficient inequality index Gini The research design is permeated by the interest of being able to establish relevant bases and reflections to understand the way in which problems associated with the wide gap that exists in the unequal distribution of income in Colombia, being one of the elements related to entrepreneurship .