Hidden Subsidies

EghtesadOnline: The policy of granting costly subsidies to help improve the quality of life of the people have apparently failed, and experts say the rich have benefited much more than those at the middle and lower end of the economic ladder.

EghtesadOnline: Forty young researchers, along with a group of renowned economic experts, including Masoud Nili, former special presidential aide for economic affairs; Mohsen Jalalpour, former president of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture; and Hossein Abdoh-Tabrizi, former secretary-general of the Securities and Exchange Brokers Organization, recently released a statement calling for an end to indirect and hidden subsidies doled out by the government.