A New Index of Investigating Urban-Rural Privations for Developing Supporting Plans in Line with Targeted Subsidies

In all countries, the government makes efforts to alleviate or eradicate privationsin the country via promoting social welfare and creating new employment in theunderprivileged areas. In order to determine the extent of the privation at differentlevels – national, regional, urban, and local – different methods could be devisedand applied each of which utilizes different indices. However, due to the differencebetween developed and developing countries, similar methods cannot be used in allcountries. Thus, it seems necessary to devise new indices to investigate and evaluatethe extent of the privation at different levels. In this article, the privation status in thecountry, between the urban and rural communities, has been investigated via using anew index. The comparison between the outputs produced by the index indicates thatthe devised index offers accurate results; hence, it can be used to evaluate the privationextent at regional level.