Measurement of welfare index and income inequality in urban and rural households Khorasan Razavi province and its comparison with other provinces of the country.
Subject Areas : Agricultural Economics Researchamir moatabar roudi 1 , Mohammad Ghorbani 2 , alireza hossani 3
1 - Ph.D. student of Agricultural Economics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
2 - Professor of Center for Remote Sensing and GIS Research, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Retired management organization
Keywords: Keywords:Amartyasen, Social Welfare Index, Gini Coefficient,
Abstract :
Abstract: This article deals with the measurement of income inequality and social welfare index in the provinces of the country during the years 2012-2020.The comparison of the Gini coefficient of the province and the country shows that this coefficient in the province is always lower than the urban areas of the country, except for 2017, and it indicates a better distribution of income among the urban households of the province compared to the country.The investigation of the social welfare index during the years 2012-2020 in the urban areas of the country shows that the highest figure of this index with the number of 191,157 thousand rials in 2012and the lowest figure of this index with the number of 152,680 thousand rials at the end of the period (year 2020) occurred in the areas Rural, except for 2017, the value of this index in the country always shows a downward trend. The social welfare index of the urban areas of Khorasan Razavi province is on the third floor with an average figure of 159,395 thousand rials.
