EghtesadOnline: Housing accounted for 27.4% of total expenditure of Iranian households in the year ending March 2020, a report by the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare says.

EghtesadOnline: President Ebrahim Raeisi, during a trip to Iran’s remotest border province of Sistan-Baluchestan, pledged to wipe out poverty and discrimination as he talked to locals to get a close understanding of their problems.

EghtesadOnline: Poverty line per capita increased by 38% year-on-year to reach 12.54 million rials ($45.93) per month in the fiscal 2020-21 due to high food and housing inflation rates, says the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare in a first-of-its-kind official report titled “Poverty Monitor” about the status of poverty and households’ welfare in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2021).

EghtesadOnline: Today, all governments in the world list the reduction of poverty and the population below the poverty line as their main priorities and policies.

EghtesadOnline: Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their work in fighting global poverty , the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

EghtesadOnline: War and poverty have forced 50 million children around the world from their homes, according to UNICEF.