introduction of human development index (hdi) by undp in early 1990 followed a surge in use of non-parametric and parametric indices for measurement and comparison of countries performance in development, globalization, competition, well-being and etc. the hdi is a composite index of three indicators. its components are to reflect three major dimensions of human development: longevity, knowledg...

this paper examines the relationship between growth and poverty in iran during the first five-year plan. in other words, effort has been made to show whether economic growth in iran helped poor people or not. for this purpose the concept of pro poor growth has been analyzed with application to the economy of iran, both in urban and rural areas and in the country as a whole. we use an indicator ...

A dissimilarity index of multidimensional inequality of opportunity, 2010, Forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Inequality. A recent literature on inequality of opportunity o¤ers quantitative tools for comparisons and measurement based on stochastic dominance criteria and traditional inequality indices. In this paper I suggest an additional way of assessing inequality of opportunity and opera...

1-introduction it is a long time that geography of poverty has entered the geographical literature and always geographers remember it as a bitter social reality that its effects and negative results are reflected in all parts of individual and social life. in iran, poverty has been a more economic concept and has been taken into consideration less than other aspects. in the case that we want to...

Poverty is a multidimensional one, which means that the poor can suffer multiple disadvantages at same time. This paper aims to further develop and refine poverty measure using Fuzzy Sets Theory (FST). The application of FST starts with properly conveying realities attributes inequality proposing appropriate justified membership functions for both variables. And then, applying fuzzy rules integ...