An analysis of regional poverty and factors affecting in developed and developing countries

The negative economic, social and political characteristics of poverty have forced governments to prioritize the improvement of the poor in their work. Therefore, it is very important to pay attention to poverty and its factors affecting.But the important issue in this regard is the various definitions related to poverty.These definitions are different according to different approaches, including its regionality.This issue creates the mentality that is the phenomenon of poverty a regional and geographical category? In other words, are the factors affecting poverty different in developed and developing regions? Or is poverty an international phenomenon and its factors affecting are the same everywhere?For this purpose and in order to answer the mentioned questions, in the current research, poverty was investigated and modeled in two groups of developing and developed countries based on geographical conditions, in the period from 1990 to 2017.The research findings indicate that:The variables of economic growth, international trade, inflation, unemployment and financial development are the most important factors affecting the poverty index in developing and developed countries. However, inflation and unemployment indicators increase poverty and improving financial development, economic growth and international trade reduces poverty. Also, the coefficient of economic growth on poverty has a negative effect in both groups of developing and developed countries, which indicates the confirmation of Stiglitz's trickle-down effect theory that economic development reduces poverty; In addition, poverty in different regions is mostly an economic category and other different approaches related to poverty are placed in the next levels of importance.