Measuring Poverty Lines and Their Indicators in Two Residential Collectives (Binasloua and Daratoo) in The Year 2003

Abstract Poverty is considered as a complex phenomenon that has economic, social and political serious dimensions. Further, poverty is not restricted to special geographical area or periods. Therefore, if the problem of poverty aggravates and is not tackled properly, it will lead to negative repercussions that might threat the society as a whole. The sample of the study restricted to two residential collectives; considers that the majority of those people are emigrants from their destroyed villages or they are forcibly expelled from Kirkuk Governorate. For these reasons, poverty is expected to be a dominant characteristic in the area under consideration. So, the current study aims at measuring poverty indices which might help programs that are designed to reduce the poverty severity. Hence, the study employed objective methods to measure extreme, absolute, relative and subjective poverty. Generally speaking, the results show that the degree of poverty is not relatively severe as one might think in the area under consideration. The result suggests that the United Nations' resolution 986 (oil for food) positively affected in the reduction of poverty. Finally, the research recommends useful suggestions that might serve to better overcome poverty in the area considered. .