In this study, through the elasticity approach, we tried to evaluate the effects of cash subsidy on poverty reduction. In this regard, after the theoretical arguments about the poverty elasticity to income, Gini Coefficient, and price using the data related to the expenses and incomes of the 14701 urban households from 1389 to 1390, the quantitative value of these elasticity was measured and fi...

Intuition: Poverty reduction should be seen as a part of a wider enterprise to establish a well-ordered and balanced society. Obviously, this target cannot be achieved overnight and it requires many different, consistent and harmonious efforts to attack the causes of inequity and deprivation from different angles. To guarantee less poverty in future means to tackle child poverty today. Chil...

Expended Abstract Introduction: An issue which is often recurring in discussion on development is whether the main focus of development strategies should be on growth or on poverty and/or inequality. The goal of development strategies can be put in two statements. “First, the rapid elimination of absolute poverty, under all forms, is a meaningful goal for development Second, the reduction of a...

Expended Abstract Introduction: An issue which is often recurring in discussion on development is whether the main focus of development strategies should be on growth or on poverty and/or inequality. The goal of development strategies can be put in two statements. “First, the rapid elimination of absolute poverty, under all forms, is a meaningful goal for development Second, the reduction of a...