The business growth: A fundamental tool for poverty reduction

This paper deals with poverty and inequality tendencies in Colombia in order to establish the decisive factors in their variation. Both measuring and decreasing of this problematic depends of many factors. Taking real enterprise cases, private intervention through social responsibility and checking statistics of social state expenditure, it is proposed to establish the incidence of these kinds of interventions in the positive variations of poverty and inequality figures in Colombia, the limitations of state policies and the following course of social responsibility. These references is to study the mechanism which can affect in a strong way in the decreasing of poverty and inequality and increasing of life level of population. The methodology used was a documentary revision of specialized bibliography.