Quality of Life and Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index as a Method of Evaluation

This article presents the methodological basis of the doctoral thesis entitled "Quality of Life in the City of Bogota: An Assessment through the use of the Multidimensional Poverty Index-MPI," an ongoing investigation. Quality of life, understood as people's capability to develop their life projects, depends to a large extent on the guarantee that a nation provides its citizens to accede to a range of primary goods, understood as endowments and rights that a state has agreed to provide for its inhabitants. In recent years, Bogota has developed public policies to ensure this type of primary goods to its residents. The overall objective of the study is to evaluate how these actions have improved the quality of life of citizens; for which MPI was selected. The method was designed by Alkire and Foster and adapted to Colombia by the National Planning Department-DNP. It has been applied to each of the localities that make up the political and administrative divisions of the city. The advantage is it can be broken down into each of its dimensions and indicators, facilitating the formulation and evaluation of policies.