Equidad social: un reto por recorrer para la sociedad colombiana

The interest of this reflection is to understand how the scientific advance and the cultural tendencies of the present time get away of the rationality and the search of the true social equality, on the contrary suggests to tie the quality of life to the marginal propensity to the consumption, as calculates the main indicators in the world, —The Gini coefficient, Theil index and the Palm index—. The priority of measuring citizens' incomes in order to calculate inequity is to focus purely monetary policies and solutions, which, when viewed directly, ultimately lead to the simple incentive of consumption without having a profound impact on social development or quality of life of human beings, the implementation of the methods that take the method that suggests multidimensional poverty index adapted for Colombia from the year 2010, was the input for the implementation of social policies, allowed to correct the shortcomings of the target citizens and as a consequence, in the medium term positively affect the behavior of the monetary indicators. Taking into account the data available in the National Department of Statistics, a comparison is made between the evolution of the Gini coefficient, the monetary poverty index between 2000 and 2015, and the historical reflection in the Multidimensional Poverty Index year 2010.