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Considering the importance of poverty in economic development issues, it is tried to estimate poverty intensity and examine its trend via using an applied index called SST. This index belongs to the family of decomposable indices and shows the poverty intensity in terms of the product of its components: poverty rate, average poverty gap ratio of the poor and Gini index of poverty gap ratio of the population. This decomposition makes possible for the researcher to follow the source of changes in poverty intensity via changes in its components. The results reveal that the SST index has increased during both in urban and rural areas of the province. Also, the increase in the urban areas, is much more than the increase in rural areas.
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