چكيده لاتين :
A key issue for many countries and even for international
organizations including "The World Bank" and "The United
Nations" is how to attack poverty. In many countries of the
world, millions of people are hungry, lacking shelter and
clothing, sick and uncared for, illiterate and not schooled.
These, all cause to reduce efficiency and productivity of labor,
and hence decrease income. Also, being in a geographical
region in which there are poor countries is itself a factor of
poverty. In fact, there is a poverty trap in such regions. That is,
being poor and being in a poor region are factors which lead to
longer and deeper poverty.
Many Muslim and Arab countries are classified as low
income countries and they are also contiguous to other low
income ones. Studying poverty in these countries is necessary
and can be helpful for deciding about both domestic and
common regional polices for them. Therefore, this study
focuses on poverty in Arab and Muslim nations, and analyzes
this subject through spatial econometric techniques, because
spatial econometrics is a suitable method for considering spatial
and geographical effects. Countries under study are clustered in
accordance ofboth income poverty indices.
