Income Poverty, Capability Poverty and Social Exclusion: The trend of conceptual evolutions of poverty and deprivation in recent decades

This paper investigates the trend of conceptual evolutions of poverty and deprivation in recent decades. Because of the limitations of economic approaches, poverty studies in past years turned from quantitative, static, one-dimensional, top-down, refectory without considering power and agency, to societal, qualitative, dynamic, multi-dimensional and relative approaches. Decreasing poverty is most important goal of social policy, and poverty definition is related to poverty policy-making. Although dominant approach to evaluate of poverty and deprivation in iran is economic, this paper argues social exclusion is more appropriate concept in this area.