La economía nacional, desde su nacimiento como República del Ecuador, ha presentado varios desequilibrios económicos; desencadenando problemas relacionados con: la desigualdad, incremento de brechas entre ricos y pobres, aumento de la pobreza y limitaciones en la generación de nuevos empleos de calidad. Esta situación obliga a preguntarse la relación existente entre el crecimiento y la desigualdad de una nación. Para lo cual, Simon Kuznets formuló una hipótesis en la cual trataba de explicar la relación de la U invertida sobre la base de un modelo migratorio en el que la fuerza laboral rural se traslada a la zona urbana con la finalidad de mejorar sus salarios. En ese sentido, el presente estudio intenta analizar, bajo esta misma hipótesis, si la relación crecimiento - desigualdad se cumple en la economía nacional con el objetivo de brindar mayores y mejores aportes en la búsqueda de un crecimiento económico sostenido, pero no desigual.   Palabras clave: desigualdad, crecimiento, Ecuador, aumento de brechas.  ABSTRAT The national economy, since its birth as the Republic of Ecuador, has presented various economic imbalances; triggering problems related to: inequality, widening gaps between rich and poor, increasing poverty and limitations in generating new quality jobs. This situation forces us to ask the relationship between growth and inequality of a nation. For which, Simon Kuznets formulated a hypothesis in which he tried to explain the relationship of the inverted U based on a migratory model in which the rural labor force moves to the urban area in order to improve their wages. In this sense, the present study tries to analyze, under this same hypothesis, whether the growth-inequality relationship is fulfilled in the national economy with the aim of providing greater and better contributions in the search for sustained economic growth, but not unequal. Keywords: inequality, growth, Ecuador, increasing gaps. Información del manuscrito: Fecha de recepción: 02 de diciembre de 2019 Fecha de aceptación: 07 de enero de 2020 Fecha de publicación: 09 de enero de 2020The national economy, since its birth as the Republic of Ecuador, has presented various economic imbalances; triggering problems related to: inequality, widening gaps between rich and poor, increasing poverty and limitations in generating new quality jobs. This situation forces us to ask the relationship between growth and inequality of a nation. For which, Simon Kuznets formulated a hypothesis in which he tried to explain the relationship of the inverted U based on a migratory model in which the rural labor force moves to the urban area in order to improve their wages. In this sense, the present study tries to analyze, under this same hypothesis, whether the growth-inequality relationship is fulfilled in the national economy with the aim of providing greater and better contributions in the search for sustained economic growth, but not unequal. Keywords: inequality, growth, Ecuador, increasing gaps.