The cost of rights in the colombian state

Abstract

The social State of law has human dignity as a presupposition, whose materialization implies the recognition of rights and minimum guarantees by the State, a situation that implies allocating substantial resources and strengthening social policies in order to reduce poverty and inequality, while rights are enforced. This article addresses this issue and aims to explain the underlying relationship between public spending and the cost of rights in the Colombian State. The methodology used consists of starting from some theoretical and conceptual references on the social state of law, the cost of rights and public spending, and then presenting the way in which rights are financed in Colombia, emphasizing the costs of some rights, to which consults jurisprudence, doctrine and legal norms that support the cost of rights in Colombia. The document concludes that to make rights effective, State intervention is required, especially through the allocation of resources to provide goods and services, which implies increasing public spending. Such allocation of resources must be effective, expressed in quality public services, with coverage, productivity and fight against corruption.