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Analysis of poverty and poverty alleviation measures and information technology: the case of jordan

• Authors Details :  
• Akram Masoud Haddad,  
• Rajneesh Mishra

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This study reviews indicators of poverty and the government policies and strategies to reduce and alleviate poverty in Jordan and investigate the effects of information technologies (ITC) on the poverty in Jordan, Population growth rate, GDP at current prices, consumer price index, and human development index in addition to percentage of population use internet, percentage of export and import of ITC of the total trade are used as dependent variables. Data from different resource is collected from 1999 in which the internet started in Jordan till 2018 on the abovementioned variables. The results show that there are negative impacts of the percentage of population using internet on the poverty rate while there are positive effects of human development index and consumer price index on poverty

Article Subject Details

• Information technology
• Management Information Systems

Article Keywords Details

• Information Technology
• Internet Usage
• Jordan
• Poverty Alleviation Strategy
• Poverty In Jordan
• Poverty. Poverty Alleviation

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