Vol. 23 No. 6 (2013)
Artículos de Investigación

Human development index. An approach from the central bajio region

Juan Antonio Rodríguez González
Profesor-Investigador del Departamento de Estudios Sociales de la Universidad de Guanajuato, Campus León
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Alex Ricardo Caldera Ortega
Departamento de Gestión Pública y Desarrollo, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Campus León, Universidad de Guanajuato.

Published 2014-01-20

Keywords

  • Human Development,
  • regional development,
  • public policy.
  • Desarrollo humano,
  • desarrollo regional,
  • políticas públicas.

How to Cite

Rodríguez González, J. A., & Caldera Ortega, A. R. (2014). Human development index. An approach from the central bajio region. Acta Universitaria, 23(6), 34–42. https://doi.org/10.15174/au.2013.465

Abstract

The study of development has been a priority in Latin America. for the past several decades The United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) has launched an initiative to all UN member nations to achieve development. In this research, we set out to identify the level of development of the central bajio region from inter-and intra-municipal analysis, evaluating measurement indicators in order to make them useful to improving design and evaluation tools of local public policies that impact regional strategy.