دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی تجزیه و تحلیل فقر (خلاصه) - 2014

A. Recent Trends in Poverty

1. Income poverty.

Georgia's strong economic performance has had a limited positive impact on poverty reduction because growth was largely driven by increases in labor productivity and attendant income growth was concentrated among the top 10% of income earners. The percentage of the population living below the relative poverty line decreased from 24.6% in 2004 to 21.4% in 2013. 2 The poverty headcount ratio based on the absolute poverty line declined from 18.0% in 2006 to 14.8% in 2012, and the percentage of the population living in extreme poverty fell from 5.4% to 3.7% over the same period.3 So-called registered poverty, which is the percentage of the population officially registered as poor, rose from 6.4% in 2007 to 9.7% in 2013. The poverty headcount ratio at $2.0 a day at purchasing power parity declined from 36.7% in 2003 to 35.6% in 2010, but the percentage of the population living on less than $1.25 a day at purchasing power parity increased from 17.7% to 18.0% during the same period. 4 With the rate of officially recorded unemployment at 11.5% in 2003, 15.0% in 2012, and 14.6% in 2013, the reduction in poverty mostly resulted from declines in food prices in 2012 and increases in social transfers, such as social assistance allowances and old-age pensions, and remittance inflows.