La línea de pobreza subjetiva para Tunja, Colombia 2015

Abstract

La mayoría de los gobiernos del territorio nacional vienen anunciando, en los últimos años, descensos significativos de la pobreza como un éxito derivado de sus propios actos. Sin embargo, la percepción de los colombianos no concuerda con dichos descensos. Por ello, es pertinente establecer medidas complementarias, que tengan en cuenta la percepción de quienes se consideran pobres, con el propósito de erigir políticas públicas más certeras para mitigar y superar las consecuencias negativas de la pobreza. Este documento muestra una estimación de la línea de pobreza subjetiva, a partir de tres métodos, para la ciudad de Tunja en 2015, que permite evidenciar que el DANE subestimó la pobreza de la ciudad al menos en un 30 %.

Institutional Development in Main Colombian Cities: What Is Its Relation to Subjective Poverty?

“…In Colombia, studies of SP are also relatively recent (Castillo, Castro, and González 2011; Niño-Muñoz and Morera-Ubaque 2018; Pinzón Gutiérrez 2017, Piñeros López and Clavijo Abril 2015; Piñeros and González 2015; Tobasura Jiménez and Casas Herrera 2017). Some studies have estimated the probability of citizens’ feeling poor by analyzing simultaneously variables such as income, homeownership, possession of goods, educational level, living in a urban area, health condition, employment (Niño-Muñoz and Morera-Ubaque 2018; Piñeros and González 2015), satisfaction with public services, and children’s age (Castillo, Castro, and González 2011).…”

“…Some studies have estimated the probability of citizens’ feeling poor by analyzing simultaneously variables such as income, homeownership, possession of goods, educational level, living in a urban area, health condition, employment (Niño-Muñoz and Morera-Ubaque 2018; Piñeros and González 2015), satisfaction with public services, and children’s age (Castillo, Castro, and González 2011). Another study calculated the subjective poverty line in Tunja, the capital city of Boyacá, a Colombian department (Tobasura Jiménez and Casas Herrera 2017). Besides, Piñeros López and Clavijo Abril (2015) evidenced a positive relationship between the subjective approach and the different components of objective poverty, such as food security and income level.…”

“…Unfortunately, these attempts have not effectively tackled the root causes of social inequality (Ramírez-Orozco 2013) or other violent factors (Lupu 2020; Moreno León 2021). Analyzing solely monetary indicators is not enough to highlight where efforts can be focused to achieve a possible solution, as there are other factors that need to be developed to overcome the feeling of poverty (Aguado-Quintero et al 2010; Niño-Muñoz and Morera-Ubaque 2018; Piñeros López and Clavijo Abril 2015; Piñeros and González 2015; Pinzón Gutiérrez 2017; Tobasura Jiménez and Casas Herrera 2017). People need social, economic, political, and cultural opportunities to achieve their desired state of living and thus assess satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their living conditions.…”