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Objectives: This research is seeking to answer a basic question: "Have three five years Socio-Economic plans in first, second, third economic development could create poverty changes in Semnan province or not (1368 - 83 )? Doing so, poverty line and the poverty indices are estimated concerning urban and rural areas during 1st (1989-1993), 2nd (1995-1999) and 3rd (2000-2004) plans. Method: In order to estimate poverty line and the poverty indices, the expenditure-income data, price indices concerning urban and rural areas during three socio-economic plans (1989-2004) is used. Consumer behavior is analyzed by dividing the total urban and rural consumption into 8 main commodity groups: the food and beverage, clothing, housing, housing furniture’s and services, health and medical cares, transport and communications, entertainment and educations, and other commodities. Then, households poverty line, and Head-Count, Poverty Gap and Foster, Greer, Thorbecke index have been found based on household survey data using the Liner Expenditure System (LES) of equations with iterative seemingly unrelated Regression (ISUR) method corresponding to rural and urban areas of Semnan province. Finding: Poverty lines in urban and rural areas during the three socio-economic plans have had upward trends in urban areas, it has increased by more than 17 times and has reached from 1042791 Rials at the first year of the 1st plan to 17761513 Rials at the end of the 3rd plan. In rural areas, the poverty line was 691931 Rials at the first year of the 1st plan which by 18 times increase has reached to 12409611 Rials at the end of the 3rd plan. Results: One of the main reasons of the increase has been the high inflation rate. Although, the poverty lines in urban areas have always been higher than that in the rural areas, the rural Head count poverty has been more than urban, but the poverty gap and FGT index in urban have been more than those in rural areas. All poverty indices have increased during the 1st development plan and reduced during the 2nd and 3rd plans.

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Introduction: due to importance of poverty reduction in reducing social problems, sustainable development of a country and increase of social welfare level or to detect qualified persons using welfare programs, to study the poverty phenomenon has to be studied This can help policy makers in poverty elimination. Method: we used the statistical data on household budgets for measuring poverty indices (Foster-Greer-Thorbecke).this study conducted for both urban and rural areas of Kerman province and their comparison with corresponding Indices in National level. Findings: in general, the trend of poverty measures in both urban and rural areas has been declining. Using independent T test we found that incidence and intensity of poverty in rural areas has been higher than the corresponding figures for the urban areas. all of three measures in urban areas of province was higher than the same measures in urban areas of Iran.Hypothesis of increasing poverty measures in rural areas of province than rural areas of Iran were confirmed only about two variables (e.g. P0, P1). Conclusion: although the general trend of poverty in both urban and rural areas of Kerman province has been declining , but in some years this trend has high fluctuation that show poverty reduction policies has not been applied in strategic and sustainable program and has not been with strict identification of the poor. Increased severity of poverty in rural areas of Kerman needs more attention by policy makers to identify the poor and allocate helps to them, in the end of study regarding to socio-economic properties of Kerman province, we propose recommendations for poverty reduction in province.

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Introduction: Childhood is a very vulnerable stage in life. Child well-being, either directly or indirectly is affected by the status of households’ nutrition. Nutritional condition is an effective factor in weakening or strengthening the relationship between poverty and health in every household. Due to the importance of measuring nutrition poverty indices to inform planners  about the distributive effects of policy strategies as well as family and child welfare, this study tends to measure and analyze the trends of nutritional poverty of Iranian households with child from 1984-2012.

Method: In this trend study, statistical data on household socioeconomic characteristics (household income-cost design) has been used to measure food poverty among the households with child. To this end and to investigate households’ food caloric, this research used Foster, Greer and Thorbeck (FGT) index. STATA and Excel softwares were employed to do the calculations.  Findings: After dividing childhood into four age periods, nutrition poverty among households with child was examined in all of them. The results showed that in most age groups, the rate and severity of nutrition poverty had the highest values in 1989; also nutritional poverty of age group 0-5 years in the1989 entry year showed a reduced trend but in other entry years had some fluctuations. Compared to age groups, poverty rates among households with child belonging to age group 0-5 years, was lower than other age groups.

Discussion: Overall, nutritional poverty was high in all age groups and experienced large fluctuations. In most age groups, the rate and severity of poverty were highest during the First Development Plan. Research findings can have implications for policy makers regarding implementing efficient and effective policies in the field of child welfare.