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Reza Zare, Mohammad Safari,
Volume 19, Issue 74 (11-2019)
Abstract
Introduction: Poverty is considered as a horrifying and life-threatening phenomenon as well as a multifaceted process stemmed from social interactions, political structures, socioeconomic strategies, and performance of individuals and groups. Therefore, addressing the issue of poverty as well as its associated causes and factors can be regarded as one of the most important roles of governments.
Method: This research is a qualitative study using theme analysis method. Participants included 17 family social workers of Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (IKRF) in Fars Province and professors of relevant fields working at universities in the city of Shiraz who were selected using a purposive sampling method. The required data were also collected through semi-structured interviews and then analyzed via continuous comparison methods.
Findings: The results of this study led to 14 sub-themes and six main themes as the significant factors affecting the incidence of poverty. The main themes included “Factors related to head of the family: (wrongdoer and unwanted person)”, “Factors related to family: (controllable and uncontrollable)”, “Factors related to governance: (political, legal, citizenship services, and administration of governmental organizations)”, “Cultural factors: (social and belief-related) “Geographical factors: (climate and natural resources)”, and “Economic factors: (internal and external)”.
Discussion: A variety of factors are involved in the incidence of poverty, so it cannot be merely reduced through emphasis on one or more factors. Thus, managing poverty in a society requires identifying all factors contributing to its incidence, categorizing these factors in an acceptable and meaningful manner, and also doing integrated and comprehensive planning to overcome them.
Ensieh Nejabat, Amirhossein Amirkhani, Alireza Mooghali, Hassan Darvish,
Volume 21, Issue 83 (3-2022)
Abstract
Introduction: The importance of public subsidies as a part of government financial policies that have a significant impact on the economic and social variables of society, has led governments, especially in recent years, to seek solutions to improve subsidies and increase their efficiency. So in order to draw the general framework of a desirable and efficient subsidy and to determine the factors that should be considered in subsidy policies and programs, attempts have been made in the current research to identify and explain the characteristics of "good subsidy"_ a subsidy that is in line with good governance and reflects its goals and indicators.
Method: In this research theme analysis, theoretical literature, and the comments of 16 experts on characteristics of good subsidy were utilized to analyze the data. The comments of the experts were obtained through semi-structured interviews. The experts have been selected through purposive sampling and snowball method.
Results: Through the review and analysis of theoretical sources (including about 200 related books and papers) 725 codes or related semantic units were obtained and after coding the interviews 453 codes were identified. Then all of codes were classified into 27 themes and finally from that themes 9 distinctive concepts or factors (as characteristics of "good subsidy") were extracted.
Discussion: The considered meaning of each good subsidy characteristics is explained based on the following themes of each characteristic. It is expected that by considering the characteristics of good subsidies in codifying and implementing public subsidies, the desirability of government performance in this area would be improved.
Seyyede Ashraf Mousavi Loghman, Seyyede Sara Moosavi, Leila Davoudi Zadeh, Mir Saman Pishvaee,
Volume 23, Issue 91 (2-2024)
Abstract
Introduction:
The family as a social institution plays a key role in institutionalizing, accepting and promoting the culture of productivity. Since the origin of productivity is the literature of economics and management, it has not been able to establish its conceptual links with the "family" institution. Thus, it is necessary to explain the concept of "family productivity" in the intra-family dimension. This research seeks to extract it in the form of a model by calculating the components, dimensions and different conceptual layers of family productivity.
Method: In this way, by Apllying thematic analysis with library studies and interviews with experts, he has analyzed the topic with an emphasis on the field of "Economic Productivity".
Findings: According to the conceptual model, the family has inputs that transform it into various economic and social outputs in the family and society in the context of action and decision making. But every type of decision that the family makes has effects and consequences for its inputs and economic and social capital. The analysis of the economic productivity model of the family shows that the culture of productivity carries with it a meaning system and imposes on economic behaviors. In this way, by combining the requirements of the family and the culture of productivity, the desired economic behaviors are separated by the fields of action (including work and production, capital and physical assets, government subsidies, credit, loans, necessary expenses, welfare and luxury expenses, savings, investment, charitable expenses , intergenerational transfers, debt and debt, risk management and insurance, taxation, allocation and recycling).
Discussion: Productive decisions will increase the input level and non-productive decisions will reduce or waste resources, and this feedback loop will always continue. The components of the productivity culture in the family can be repeated and practiced, and this culture can be easily transmitted through the family. In their big and small decisions, people can determine the level of productivity and even witness the consequences of their choices. Also, the analysis of behaviors shows that the three pillars of need, capability and belief are actually the intervention levers in determining the economic productivity of the family, which causes the diversity of the economic lifestyle of the families.