ANÁLISIS TRANSVERSAL DE LA POBREZA EN EL ECUADOR A TRAVÉS DE LAS CAPACIDADES HUMANAS: DATOS 2014

Abstract

This research analyzes poverty in Ecuador through the approach of the capabilities of Sen. The purpose of this paper is to know which ones of the capabilities have a significant value when those are estimating with self-reports of poverty in the country. The importance of poverty lies in the fact that through the study of the social reality in which poor people live, new policies of development can be generated with alternatives oriented to social welfare. Through the development of this research a quantitative approach was used applying ordinal logistic regression tools with data from the Living Conditions Survey of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of the year 2014. Once the data were debugged, 21,440 data were processed regarding the variables proposed by the author. The main conclusion reached is that self-reports of poverty has a significant relationship with education, sex, age, marital status, family responsibilities, work activity, health, food, basic services, housing, security and well-being. However, no significance was found with the ability of the social plane.