Decomposition of Poverty in Iran with Reference to Household’s Socioeconomic Characteristics, Using Integrated Macro and Micro Data

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Poursadeghi Haghighat, Soheil | 2010

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 40734 (44)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Management and Economics
Advisor(s): Neili, Farhad
Abstract:
This research uses the new approach of Son (2003) for the decomposition of poverty in Iran into three separate components of growth, inequality and population effects during 2001 to 2007 and meanwhile uses the integration of microeconomic and macroeconomic data together to increase the accuracy of the results. The main question of this research is to determine the orientation of development strategies for alleviation of poverty in Iran, which could be either growth-oriented or inequality-oriented ones. The resultes suggest that the former has always been pro-poor in Iran and has had the most dominant effect. Therefore, in order to decrease the poverty in Iran in the future, there should be more attempts to increase the growth instead of decreasing the inequality. In addition, this research uses a new approach to distinguish between the three before mentioned effects between households according to their socioeconomic characteristics. So it can exactly determine which effect is the dominant one in each of mutually exclusive groups and can exactly tell which group has the most important share in each component of poverty decomposition in Iran.
Keywords:
Iran Economy ; Poverty Decomposition ; Inequality ; Micro and Macro Data Integration ; Growth Effect ; Population Effect

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