Habib-allah Shahriyari
1, Masoud Amiri
1, Zahra Shahriyari
21 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
2 Department of Economy, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
Poverty is a multi-dimensional problem and various researchers, based on their field, have investigated
different aspects of poverty. Moreover, poverty, as a global problem, could be an interesting subject
for both developed and developing countries. In recent decades, both international organizations
and different countries have had some programs for reducing poverty. The evaluatinon of power and
capacity of national economy for coping with poverty is the first essential step. In addition, in a longterm period, poverty would depend on economy development, but in the short-term, considering the
proper concept of poverty with potential available financial resources is necessary. Then, calculation
of poverty line and percentage of poor people using the appropriate methods is the next step. In recent
decades, Iran’s economy has had different problems such as rising inflation, unemployment, balance
of payments deficit in macroeconomics and its effect on poverty and in equal income distribution
in microeconomics. Effects of the price balancing on poverty is also an important subject that its
evaluation is possible with the data acquired after subsides policy. Another aspect is the picture of
poverty in rural and urban communities in the last year and near to implementation of this policy.
This article presented an overall picture of poverty in urban and rural communities of Iran as well as
worldly defined indices in poverty literature.