saed vesali; amer mohammadinkhorasani
Volume 5, Issue 20 , January 2017, , Pages 69-92
Abstract
States have always tried to provide people or some of people with the minimum level of welfare to keep them satisfied. However, the interference by governments in this matter varies. This study is about the attitudes of Ali-Ibn-Abitaleb towards welfare since he is the one whose governance is a model ...
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States have always tried to provide people or some of people with the minimum level of welfare to keep them satisfied. However, the interference by governments in this matter varies. This study is about the attitudes of Ali-Ibn-Abitaleb towards welfare since he is the one whose governance is a model for Iranians by which they have been inspired. In order to do this the content analysis of Nahj-ol-balaghe was employed. In this content analysis the main category was welfare and frequency tables were used to report the findings and the analysis of the findings was conducted in a qualitative way. Referring to the conceptual framework and the text, the sub categories of welfare were obtained as follows: 1. Poverty 2. Donation 3. Knowledge and learning4. Justice and equality 5. Right and wrong 6. Consultation 7. Reason and wisdom 8. Contentment and greed 9. Solidarity, friendship and trust. The most important conclusion was that along with emphasizing the above mentioned welfare concepts, he based the welfare of a society on institutionalizing moral values, doing justice to people, promoting equality and upholding people's rights and freedom.
aliakbar tajmazenani; ali sherinabadi
Abstract
Unemployment Insurance Welfare Program in Iran suffers from several problems including financial problems, lengthy procedure of receiving unemployment benefit for some groups of the insured and the slow exit of the unemployed from the situation of benefit dependency, making the evaluation of this program ...
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Unemployment Insurance Welfare Program in Iran suffers from several problems including financial problems, lengthy procedure of receiving unemployment benefit for some groups of the insured and the slow exit of the unemployed from the situation of benefit dependency, making the evaluation of this program a necessity. The research which underlies the present paper has applied three kinds of evaluations, namely: need based evaluation, process evaluation, and impact evaluation. Using a qualitative method, in-depth interviews have been carried out with both the unemployment benefit recipients as well as the unemployment insurance staff while related administrative documents and evidence have been reviewed and analyzed. An analysis of the data reveals nine main themes which represent the most important challenges of the program, which are as follows: lengthy administrative process, lack of a comprehensive coverage of all eligible people, abuse of the program (welfare fraud), coercion and abuse by employers, imbalance between the incoming and the outgoing numbers of unemployed people (to and from the unemployment insurance fund), weak re-employment, inconsistency in administrative data and statistics, welfare dependency, and lack of coverage for all needs of the unemployed.
