Measurement of the millennium development goals as a scale of social development in Sucre, Colombia

Abstract

This document shows the measurement of a quantitative measurement of descriptive court, of the analysis of secondary data provided by the official information sources proposed based on the guidelines that the Colombian government set out in the CONPES 91 and and that respond to a series of 58 non-random indicators of socioeconomic measurement of the Social Policy Documents by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the Departamento de Sucre (Colombia).After explaining the relevance of the study and other provisions, the results of the study, MDG by MDG, and analyzed against the expected goals are shown. The main finding is  most of the proposed indicators do not have an accurate measurement tool at the sub-national level, therefore, their management cannot be strictly described or contrasted with national results; until the original metrics and indicators are adjusted. Finally, there is a discussion on the relevance of implementing the new Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, when by 2018, there are no updated results on transcendental phenomena such as poverty and the coverage of unsatisfied basic needs; as well as the performance of the regions' participation in the national MDG results, published in 2015, is not known