Una aproximación del desarrollo humano y situación socioeconómica de la localidad San Luqueño La Costa 2019.

Abstract

This research aims to create an estimation of the Human Development Index (HDI) and the socio-economic situation in San Luqueño La Costa, which belongs to the municipality of Tonalá, México in the year 2019; additionally, the evolution of the concept of economic development is studied, where the main focus was the growth to a more integrated approach in which the capacities of the individuals play a fundamental role. The focus of the research is descriptive and the methodology used for the construction of the index was based on the last update provided by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The results gathered from the instruments applied to 84 people reveal that the Human Development index is of 0.3389, categorized as low by the UNDP, by that measure, public institutions in alliance with the community must increase their effort, mainly in the dimension of level of income through alternative or complementary economic activities that guaranty more stable incomes for the people and families due to the fact that 88% of the studied population is found in a state of poverty and 62% in extreme poverty, taking into account the classification of poverty measured by income registered by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL), in addition to this situation, this location doesn't count with the coverage of basic needs, like basic sanitation, clean drinking water and a proper sewerage network.