Hunger and poverty frontier regional analysis in Turkey: 2009-2011

As one of the most important elements of development process in the world and in developing Turkey, poverty has been one of the major research areas by scientific circles.Emerged in parallel to the economical and social developments and seen in a wide geographic area, hunger and poverty; definitions of hunger and poverty, methods for poverty line selection, various poverty indices, regional examination and discussion of poverty in Turkey constitute main subjects of this study.The study consists of four main sections. In first section, hunger and poverty are explained in a conceptual manner. In the second section, methods for calculating hunger and poverty lines are discussed. In third section, world and turkish literature is searched respectively for hunger and poverty lines. In fourth section, from main expenditure groups, which are İBBS 2 level and released by TurkStat based on year 2003, the period between 2009 and 2011 is examined on a monthly basis and relative hunger and poverty lines are examined regionally both on a monthly and a periodic basis. By comparing the empirical findings, a new calculation is proposed as an alternative to the hunger and poverty line calculations carried out by Turk Stat.Key Words:1.Hunger2.Poverty3.Regional Anaysis (TR2 Level)4.Consumer Price Index (CPI)