توزيع الدخل و الفقر في محافظة الكرك

Abstract EN

This study aims at: (1) estimating the per-capita income for Karak Governorate, and comparing it to the national per-capita income; (2) identifying the income disribution among Karak Governorate’s population; (3) knowing what percentage of the Karak population live under the poverty line (4) detrmining the size of investment needed to alleviate poverty in the Karak Governorate, In order to achieve the above objectives a questionaire was designed and distributed.

It covered 12% of the Karak population (3000 families).

The most important findings of the study are: (1) per-capita income in Karak constitutes about 46.8% of the Jordanian per-capita income, which indicates that per-capita income in Karak is still very low; (2) Karak govrnorate still suffers from inequality of income distribution: since 1980 Gini coefficient has increased by 25,7% to reach to about 0.44%; (3) the percentage of the total population who live under absolute and relative poverty lines amounts to about (12.8%) and (43.4%) respectively.