considering the importance of government fiscal policy (government spending and state tax income) in economy and its effectiveness in well-being of people, this paper examines the effects of fiscal policy on poverty during the period 1386-1363 in iran. in this paper, considering the fact that poverty changes can be divided to changes in economic growth and changes in income distribution; initia...

Microfinance supports mainly informal activities that often have a low return and low market demand. It may therefore be hypothesized that the aggregate poverty impact of microfinance is modest or even nonexistent. If true, the poverty impact of microfinance observed at the participant level represents either income redistribution or short-run income generation from the microfinance interventio...

The study of poverty and income in equality are the most important subjects of social/ economic research in agriculture sector. The present study focuses on poverty and income inequality among pistachio growers in Kerman province. Absolute poverty line, relative poverty line, poverty gap and intensity were calculated. Also income distribution was investigated using Ginny coefficient, Lorenz cur...

This paper outlines the results of an investigation into three aspects of the low income cutoffs: the behaviour of a proposed “annually updated” low income series, the addition of payroll taxes, and restructuring of the matrix of 35 cutoffs. The research was first presented to Statistics Canada’s National Statistics Council in November 2000.

Most of the population of Nigeria is rural and agriculture is the mainstay of the impoverished people’s livelihood. This paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in Nigeria using the Tobit regression model. Through the multistage sampling technique, primary data were obtained from 150 rural farming households using a questionnaire. The Result of Tobit regression analysis shows that inc...

Chinese government is updating its Aid-the-Poor Program to develop a sound national poverty alleviation system, especially in mountain areas. And promoting economic growth and improving quality of life of residents are important components to ensure that poverty alleviation goals meet throughout the poverty alleviation chain. In this paper, Xiang-xi Prefecture, a typical mountain region, was ta...