Welfare, poverty and income distribution
Hamidreza Navvabpour
Abstract
Most countries of the world define poverty as a lack of money. Yet poor people themselves consider their experience of poverty much more broadly. A person who is poor can suffer from multiple disadvantages at the same time. Therefore, focusing on one factor alone, such as income, is not enough to capture ...
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Most countries of the world define poverty as a lack of money. Yet poor people themselves consider their experience of poverty much more broadly. A person who is poor can suffer from multiple disadvantages at the same time. Therefore, focusing on one factor alone, such as income, is not enough to capture the true reality of poverty. In Iran several studies have been done to calculate multidimensional poverty index, but most of them have been used household income and expenditure survey data that have limitation to calculate related indicators. The purpose of the study is to calculate and measure multidimensional poverty and the contribution of each dimension to overall poverty at the provincial levels of Iran using the Alkier-Foster method to assist policymakers in poverty alleviation. In this study, the data of the Multiple Indicator Demographic and Health Survey (MIDHS) of 2015, which includes 33013 households and more data to offer, has been used. The results show that, in addition to Khuzestan and Qom provinces, Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was particularly high in provinces on the eastern borders, while the provinces located on the northern, southern, and part of the western borders of the country, experienced less poverty. The contribution of each dimension to overall poverty also showed that the type of deprivation experienced by households in the provinces of Iran in 2015 was different.
