Resumen

The present Work exposes the relation between the results of Social Progress Imperative (IPS) and the purchasing power of the homes (variation of average income subtracting inflation) in the city of Ibague during 2011 to 2016. Establish if the purchasing power of homes behavior was an influential factor in the development in terms of social progress, in Ibague. The intention it’s also to distinguish the importance of measuring the city progress in an integral way, where the social index and not only economics, be indispensable for results. For these, it is taken as a starting point for the analysis, the Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum postulates around the capacities focus, with the purpose of bring an teoric explanation to the intention of analyze the Ibague progress beyond economics index. The investigation is divided in two chapters, first one, it realized with an analytic description of IPS in nine cities of Colombia, with the purpose of know the trends and results behavior. Second one, analyze the dimensions, IPS index and components, and contrasts them with the purchasing power for determine the relation between both. The investigation concludes with an approach of the most affected or benefited variables for purchasing power behavior.