مقایسه اثرات رفاه اجتماعی بر رشداقتصادی در ایران و منتخبی از کشورهای در حال توسعه

ازمهم‌ترین اهداف اقتصادی کشورها، ایجاد شرایط لازم جهت ارتقای سطح رشداقتصادی می‌باشد. از طرفی یکی از عوامل موثر بر رشداقتصادی رفاه‌اجتماعی است. اهمیت تحقق رفاه‌اجتماعی آنچنان با ارزش است، که سطح کیفی و کمی زندگی و سطح رفاه‌اجتماعی در کشورها یکی مهمترین معیارهای توسعه‌یافتگی است. تاثیرات رفاه‌اجتماعی بر رشداقتصادی به عنوان عاملی مهم در فرایند توسعه، نقشی تعیین کننده داشته، به نحوی که جنبه‌ها و حوزه‌‌های مختلفی در کشورهای در حال توسعه متاثر از این مقوله بوده است. بر همین اساس یکی از مهم‌ترین اهداف برنامه‌ریزان اقتصادی افزایش رفاه‌اجتماعی به منظور گسترش رشداقتصادی می‌باشد. پژوهش حاضر به دنبال بررسی و مقایسه اثرات رفاه‌اجتماعی بر رشداقتصادی در ایران و منتخبی از کشورهای در حال توسعه با استفاده از روش گشتاورهای تعمیم‌یافته در بازه زمانی سال‌های 2021-2002 می‌باشد. نتایج مطالعه حاکی از آن است که رفاه-اجتماعی تاثیری مثبت و معناداری بر رشداقتصادی داشته است. همچنین اثربخشی دولت و ثبات سیاسی سبب افزایش رشداقتصادی می‌گردد.

comparing the effects of social welfare on economic growth in iran and selected developing countries

social welfare as the development of people’s living standards is one of the most important socio-economic categories, which has been explained and analyzed in economic texts, and the provision of welfare of society members by different societies has been discussed among thinkers and experts for a long time. . although welfare is a concept that is used in all social sciences, but due to the wide scope of this concept, people do not have a single understanding of it and there are confusions about what is meant by welfare. the word social welfare is the birth of economic and social developments and relationships of recent centuries and has become the fundamental goal of development programs in different societies until today. a goal without which development in its various dimensions (human, social, cultural, political and economic) will fail. on the other hand, according to a 10-year research conducted by the united nations university’s global development economics research institute (unitar), most countries that have succeeded in reducing poverty and increasing access to public goods have based this progress on strong economic growth. according to fitzpatrick, prosperity is not the goal of development, but development itself, that is, we can consider a government and a society as developed that provides the minimum or appropriate level of life from various economic, educational, health and medical dimensions for each individual and its residents. provided when developing societies cannot have a suitable level of economic growth, one of the ways out of this situation is to increase and improve the level of social welfare. social welfare is one of the most important and attention-grabbing issues in today’s world. development and movement towards development is one of the basic issues of different societies in the world, and underdeveloped societies are trapped in the so-called vicious circle of poverty due to the lack of per capita income and countless other factors. accordingly, one of the most important goals of economic planners is to increase social welfare in order to expand economic growth. therefore, the present research aims to evaluate the effects of social welfare on economic growth in iran and selected developing countries in the period of 2002-2021 using the generalized method of moments. the results of the study indicate that social welfare has a very high impact on economic growth. also, the effectiveness of the government and political stability increase economic growth.