Índice de prosperidad: percepción de los ciudadanos del cantón Machala.

Abstract

The prosperity index provides information on the level of access that the residents of a locality have to the goods, services and wealth produced by a country. In this case, the case study sought to determine the perception of the prosperity index that the citizens of Machala canton have, through the application of surveys, to obtain a result regarding the quality of life of the population. For the literary exposition of the prosperity indicators, a bibliographic and deductive methodological line was used as it was adaptable to the study that was developed with the use of a survey as the main instrument, which consisted of 16 questions that allowed to evaluate the current level of satisfaction of the inhabitants towards the public policies promoted by the state entities in health, education and security, being thus the level of satisfaction of the population with the public policies promoted by the state entities in health, education and security, The research level is deductive in nature because this study starts from general to specific characteristics, with a quantitative approach, because the degree of satisfaction of the twelve fundamental pillars of the study was measured. Which allowed us to observe that the city of Machala does not meet the standards required to have a good prosperity in its citizenship, because many of them are affected by many policies and situations that the authorities cannot control. Therefore, we recommend a reconstruction in their public policies, seeking the welfare of the citizens.