Abstract: (9513 Views)
Objective: Poverty alleviation is an essential step to achieve economic
development. This is why identification exercise is so crucial. Traditionally,
different aspects of insecurities have not be taken into poverty measurement.
Many types of insecurities have adverse impacts on household welfare.
Identifying vulnerability of household can serve identification of the poor
households.
Methodology: This study measures degree of vulnerability of households to
poverty in city of Tehran. The poor households' characteristics are some of the
main causes of their poverty persistence. The poor households usually suffer
from lack of adequate education of their head of household. The large size of the
poor households is another factor affects their poverty persistence. Gender and
age of the poor head of households are two important characteristics affect
degree of their vulnerability. Obviously employment status and income of the
head of households are two crucial factors determining their vulnerability. Data
used in this study is pooled micro-data of household expenditure surveys from
1993 – 2007, collected by Statistical Center of Iran.
Findings & results: Findings of this study can provide a guide for subsidy
targeting. The logit model has been used to measure degree of vulnerability of
the household residents of the city of Tehran. Some of the findings show that the
larger is the size of the households, the higher is the degree of vulnerability. Age
and gender of the head of households are two main determinants of the
household vulnerability. The level of education of the head of household is
another important determinant of vulnerability to poverty. The higher is the level
of education, the lower is degree of vulnerability. Employment status is another
important determinant of vulnerability to poverty, it is expected
Type of Study:
orginal |
Received: 2011/04/18 | Published: 2010/10/15