The concept of unmet basic needs emerged as a benchmark to measure poverty levels in a population and to act accordingly, using the necessary policy tools. It includes the following: inadequate housing, housing without services, severe overcrowding, truancy and high economic dependence. Through a series of questions asked of families determines the number of households that lack the features previously listed and based on these criteria are considered poor. This indicator, although not quite complete, offers elements, which allow a State to focus its social investment for the development of this population group.
Then the state that as a provider of public goods and services determines the amount and how the budget will go into solution and change of vulnerable population groups that fall under the concept of Basic Needs (UBN). Thus, there are investments in health, nutrition, education and housing focused on families as poor.
However, in addition to the above investments the state through its area of \u200b\u200bgovernment budget is also intended for other subjects such as sport and cinema, for example, which are regarded as social investment despite not fit into the criteria of the NBI.
Without denying the importance of representing the country in sport by helping to foster what Joseph Nye determined as "Soft Power" (1), and relevance of promoting the arts, in this case film, and historical memory and cultural expression in addition to also contribute to "soft power", the truth is that lack of these activities does not imply definitely be facing a NBI. In this context, rather to speak of a Special Needs Unmet (NEI), in which, without ignoring their importance for the country, could have a different investment scheme that may have the NBI. For
example, spent $ 8,000 million pesos for the preparation of the athletes who participate in the Olympics and still be considered an insufficient number to ensure optimum preparation, meaning that the athletes can not devote full time to his activity in preparation but must have a job that generates income support (2).
In contrast, a possible alternative would be to consider these investments with a focus on unique needs unmet (NEI), considering that these activities require an extraordinary investment of resources and encouraged in this way may the attainment of greater resources through partnerships with the private sector, which give tax cuts, but also generate self-sustainability in the system as follows: The athlete who receives an allowance or assistance, you must agree that if you receive extra income derived directly or indirectly from their activities and successes, such as prizes, advertising or sponsorship contracts, allocate a percentage of that money to a fund to continue helping other athletes in training in the medium term could happen to the athlete who is currently contributing and repeat the cycle of aid.
is true that in the case of the country are not as developed athletes revenue from advertising, as in the States or Europe. However, the athlete would not be affected, since its contribution would be for a fixed period (five years, for example), and only when you have income from their sporting success, which the State has contributed to subsidize its preparation. Ie if you get income from other activities such were not subject to tax.
The idea would then cover this type of Extraordinary Needs Unmet (NEI), through extraordinary income as well, since they are conditional upon the success of the subsidized athlete, but in the current scheme does not contribute to further develop new generations of athletes representing country well, no matter what sporting and economic success with the help of the State in its preparation of high level. ----------------------------------------
(1) strategies of cultural diplomacy (and sports) that are to promote the values \u200b\u200bthat identify them as a nation state, in such a way as to make them attractive, generating interest in their country. North South Foundation. In: http://www.fundacionnortesur.org/raiz/simposio.html (query: February 25, 2008)
(2) High Performance Athletes Colombians have to work outside the quadrilateral and tracks. El Tiempo. February 15, 2008. Sports Section.
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