Authors

• Mansor Zibaei ¹
• Ashan Shooshtarian ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

² Ph.D. Student in Agriculture economics

Abstract

Anti poverty program in Iran has started in 2001 to mitigate poverty. This paper addresses issues related to the dynamics of poverty using household panel data for urban and rural areas of Iran covering the period 2001-2003. For this purpose، poor and non poor households have been identified by estimating rural and urban poverty lines. The persistence of poverty during this period has been investigated applying spell approach. Also, determinants of reentering and exiting poverty rate have been studied using the logit model. Food Energy Intake (FEI) method and nonparametric regression have been used to estimate food and non food poverty lines. Results indicate that poverty is more widespread in rural areas than in urban areas and is more persistent in urban areas than rural areas. Also، study shows that chronic poverty is more common in urban areas. 

Keywords

• Poverty Dynamics
• Chronic Poverty، Reentering Poverty Rate، Exiting Poverty rate، Household Paned Data، Iran