جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Poverty Alleviation » در نشریات گروه « اقتصاد »

The family is the most important social institution which the strength, weakness, health and corruption of society depend on it. Unlike capitalism, Islam considers spiritual matters as the principle and rejects the highlighting of material things (property, etc.), (religion, morality, etc.). The main factor in forming a family is choosing to accompany it for spiritual development and paving the way for attaining the position of nearness to Almighty Allah, which explains the other goals (educational, economic, etc.). Islam considers the analysis of the family with economic literature (maximizing material benefits) to degrade its status and prevent it from performing its main duty; Because there are more important issues involved in family formation that economic analysis is unable to find a complete answer to. Findings of the research (with analytical-descriptive method) show that economic function is acceptable as a side effect (not as the main factor) for marriage, but the main function of family formation is its educational function, which in the economic field leads to the training of committed force. Economic, reform of economic behaviors, provision and consolidation of moral values and as a result improve the economic situation, increase moral-psychological security and ... in society

the role of zakat on the social balance of the Iran’s economy has been studied by Using the data related to the Iran’s Income decades and the Agricultural Statistics Yearbook, . In addition, by calculating the parameters of the stochastic model of Zakat, its implications have been investigated in the Iran’s economy. For this purpose, based on the implications of the traditions, two assumptions are made for the payment of zakat: (1) the payment of zakat to the extent of poverty reduction, and (ii) the payment of zakat to the desired utility. For this purpose, first, the potential capacity of zakat was estimated in the monopoly of nine cases. It became clear that the level of potential zakat in the Iran’s economy in monopoly versus the volume of poverty is insignificant and can not have a significant impact on poverty alleviation.By calculating the model parameters from Iran's economy data, firstly, the classes gap in the Iran's economy is high and, as the data and static studies confirm, considering the model assumption, there is no possibility of creating a social balance in Iran's economy without reforming the wealth structure of the zakat payer group. This strongly emphasizes that, despite the Zakat solution for poverty reduction for the Islamic economic system, and in a society where relations between phenomena are defined on the basis of different economic systems, Zakat does not have its main function. In other words, in the economic system of Islam, by establishing Islamic economic relations, the various roots of poverty have decreased and by reducing the amount of poverty, Zakat's revenues will not only help to provide the welfare level for all classes of society, but also the surplus of zakat resources can be used in other expenditures of Zakat.

The main purpose of the research is to study the impact of wheat and barley Zakat on poverty alleviation in the Northern provinces and also the impact of Zakat revenue on economic growth during the period of 1995 to 2011. Since the major consumption of Zakat is for the poor and needy people and provision of the basic needs of the society, according to the religious beliefs of Muslims in paying Zakat, agricultural section tax exemption of tax systems, and wheat and barley cultivation in these provinces, Zakat of these products indicates considerable revenue which can provide a significant part of the financial needs of development projects and poverty alleviation in the rural areas. Results of the study showed that the revenue of the Zakat in Golestan province was more than Gilan and Mazandaran provinces and had an important role in poverty alleviation of the province. Meanwhile, Gilan province with lower production of wheat and barley with less Zakat revenue played less important role in poverty alleviation of the province. Furthermore, the results showed a significant positive effect of Zakat revenue on economic growth of the mentioned provinces. But this effect was small and estimated equal to 0.0005 percent. With regard to this issue, only wheat and barley Zakat is not able to cover poverty and boost economic growth. Thus, other taxes should be used as well for poverty alleviation and economic growth.

This paper closely examines “Poverty” during the first four “Development Programs” employed by the Iranian government from 1989 to 2009. After defining poverty and a review of previous studies made on this subject, the authors discuss diverse issues related to measurement of poverty and calculate levels of absolute and relative poverty lines. Additionally, they calculate indices for poverty in this paper. In order to obtain the Absolute Poverty Line (APL), the food poverty line is calculated based on minimum basic needs approach and is then added to the minimum non-food requirements. The result indicates a relative poverty line placed at 66% of the average total household expenditures. The obtained results indicate that the government hasn’t had great success in reducing relative poverty during the period studied. Relative and absolute poverty lines are greater in urban areas than in rural areas. Both relative and absolute indices of poverty were greater in rural areas than in urban areas.

Economic growth and poverty alleviation have been among the most important government policies in Iran for the past three decades. This paper examines the effect of economic growth on the poverty reduction in Iran using various methodologies and approaches for the period 1995-2003 Main findings of the paper show that poverty incidence in urban and rural areas of Iran has declined, however, the intensity of poverty has declined in urban, but increased in rural areas. Furthermore, measurements of indices such as the poverty incidence,, poverty-growth curves, and the poverty equivalent growth indicate that economic growth in most years has been weakly pro-poor in both urban and rural areas, confirming the trickle down effect of growth.