An analysis of Poverty Situation in Different Regions of Iran and its Reduction Strategies

Poverty is a bitter reality, that there is no way to escape from it in all over the history and among all nations it has been observed in intensity or weakness. Although in past centuries due to less production and revenue of communities and classified system governance, poverty has become to a naturally and obvious phenomenon, but nowadays with stunning improvements in the field of science and technology and usage of new tools and increasing production and creating new employment opportunities in most of communities, it is expected to poverty situation improves year by year and poverty percentage will decrease. In this paper, absolute and relative poverty situation have been evaluated in Iran in different years and for this purpose official government statistics were taken. In terms of the impact on type of income distribution on relative and absolute poverty, by using analytical coefficient from income distribution have been provided, and to evaluating poverty situation in different regions of country, developed degree of provinces have calculated in two time periods and level of provinces development was determined. To provide relatively complete image of provinces status human development indicators and health indicators were used. The study was indicated that during past years, absolute poverty level has reduced obviously but reduction in relative poverty hasn't been much significant, that it can representing the failure of government policies in equitable distribution of incomes and reduce in degree of inequality. (Despite spending enormous costs, support from poor people in various supporting organizations).On the other hand, rank and position of humans have been changed in terms of developing in different years, so that the rank of some provinces has been better prominently, and others have faced with descend of rank and status. It seems that developing and construction policies of government and injection of public resources are effectively in this among.