Impact of socio-economic infrastructure investments on income inequality in Iran

One of the main subjects, governments have been facing is fair distribution of income, and making effort to improve it. In this study, we evaluated the effects of economic (energy, water, ICT) and social (health, education) infrastructure expenses on income inequality in the Iranian provinces for th...

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Published inJournal of policy modeling Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 1146 - 1168
Main Authors Zolfaghari, Mehdi, Kabiri, Mahbobe, Saadatmanesh, Hamideh
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 01.09.2020
Elsevier B.V
Subjects
Analysis
Economic and social infrastructure
Equality
Evaluation
Income distribution
Income inequality
Infrastructure (Economics)
Investments
Panel corrected standard errors
Panel corrected standard errors
Income inequality
C5
O2
Economic and social infrastructure
I0
H5
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Summary:One of the main subjects, governments have been facing is fair distribution of income, and making effort to improve it. In this study, we evaluated the effects of economic (energy, water, ICT) and social (health, education) infrastructure expenses on income inequality in the Iranian provinces for the period of 2007–2016 by the panel corrected standard errors (PCSE) model. The results show that social and economic infrastructures improvements reduce income inequality. However, the magnitude of these effects varies. Investment on education, healthcare, communication technology, energy, and water infrastructures has the greatest impact on income inequality reduction, respectively. Therefore, in order to reduce inequality in deprived areas, combination and optimal allocation of economic and social infrastructures should be considered.
ISSN:0161-8938
1873-8060
DOI:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2020.02.004