General welfare: the reason for being of the State in the context of pandemic and corruption. Repensar las políticas públicas. Una propuesta en tiempos de pandemia y corrupción

Abstract

This work develops criteria on the wrong actions of state authorities, especially in relation to the validity of fundamental rights, during the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The author has considered that, in order to face the current events that are plaguing humanity, and particularly Ecuador, it is necessary to restructure public institutions, in order to redirect their purposes to benefit the most vulnerable sectors, focusing efforts on the axes: health, work, education and housing.

Public policies, over time, have not been focused on impacting the axes detailed above, considered key to alleviating poverty; consequently, the current figures move Ecuador away from the fulfillment of objectives and commitments before the international community. Said public policies and state organization were not only obsolete to face the fight against the pandemic, whose ravages are suffered by those most in need of State protection. However, another evil joined the viral tragedy: corruption.