Analysis of the social development policy in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico 2013-2016. The social economy as a proposal

Abstract

The present work has like general objective to analyse the results of the policy of Social Development in the State of Oaxaca, a review of the situation of social backwardness of the State in a period of time where the high rates of lag and its behaviour are observed. The social programs from 2013 to 2016 of the different instances were reviewed, the statistical program Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used, the results were obtained with the numerical measure of the local development indicators, it is concluded that the number of Cooperatives decreased from 2015 to 2018, which in 2015 the State of Oaxaca went to the first national place in social backwardness and in 2016 only 17.5% of the population is not poor and is not vulnerable, which has 43,200 people in extreme poverty, 380 municipalities maintained their level, 88 decreased and 98 increased their level of poverty, economic support granted to each region and its characteristics are presented. It is proposed to use the common form of organization of the inhabitants of the communities of the State of Oaxaca without extracting them from their social habitus, focused on economic activity through legal forms such as the cooperative, which would allow economic development respecting their ancestral form of social organization.

Received: 14 August 2019
Accepted: 24 February 2020
Published online: 01 April 2020