 Effects of macroeconomic variables on poverty in Iran (Application of bootstrap technique)Farhad Khodadad Kashi and
Mohammad Shahiki Tash
Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2014, vol. XXI, issue 5(594), 85-96 Abstract: It is believed that the level of poverty is significantly determined by macroeconomics variables such as inflation, government expenditure and unemployment rate. In this paper attempt has been made to investigate how macroeconomics variables affect the level of poverty in Iranian society. Our findings indicate that economic growth has significant effects on poverty in Iran. In addition, there is a negative relation between poverty and growth, namely increasing the growth rate leads to poverty reduction. The results of this study have also shown that unemployment and inflation have positive effects on poverty, while social security expenditure relating to government expenditure has no meaningful effects on poverty. In this study bootstrap technique is used to check the validity of the results. Keywords: poverty; unemployment; growth; government expenditure; bootstrap. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:agr:journl:v:xxi:y:2014:i:5(594):p:85-96 Access Statistics for this article Theoretical and Applied Economics is currently edited by Mircea Dinu More articles in Theoretical and Applied Economics from Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania / Editura Economica Contact information at EDIRC. |
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