Economist
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Economist Questions Government’s Foreign Exchange Interventions
EghtesadOnline: The tool of foreign exchange interventions to help stabilize price should be in the policymaker’s toolbox. However, there are some “buts” with a capital B that, if left unheeded,…
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Economist Defends State Assets Liquidation Plan
EghtesadOnline: The government is suffering from severe budget deficit which has driven up inflation to an unprecedented level. Iran is likely to see higher inflation rates in the future.
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Economist Warns Against Emergence of USSR-Like Economy
EghtesadOnline: In the Iranian economy, political and ideological issues have become the prime concerns of economic decision-makers, which is a repeat of the Soviet Union experience and can take…
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Economist Criticizes NDFI Fund Diversion
EghtesadOnline: Governments’ appropriation of the foreign exchange resources of the National Development Fund of Iran, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, has been rising constantly over the…
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Economist Specifies Preconditions for Ending Subsidized Import Policy
EghtesadOnline: Most economic experts concur that the government’s distribution of cheap dollar was a telling example of public fund misuse both regarding 25 items that were to be imported with…
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Economist Blames Failing Subsidy System for Rising Inequality
EghtesadOnline: Because of the failing subsidy system in Iran, some high-income individuals have raced ahead while those who fall into low-income deciles have been left behind and become poorer,…
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Economist Outlines Prospective Priorities of New Government
EghtesadOnline: The economic priorities of the new government are: formation of its economic team and urgent actions, according to Ali Marvi, the director of Sharif Business Think Tank.
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Economist Urges New Gov’t to Address Super Challenges
EghtesadOnline: The new government needs to address super challenges, as the country will not be an oil exporter by the end of the next decade, says Vahid Shaqaqi-Shahri, an economist and university…
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Liquidity Harming, Not Helping Manufactures
EghtesadOnline: Unusually large volumes of liquidity is flowing into non-productive sectors and speculative markets, instead of boosting manufactures, an economist says.
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Iranian Economist Explores Strategies to Limit Coronavirus Damage
EghtesadOnline: Rescue packages introduced in the US and European countries following the coronavirus outbreak are designed to make compliance with social-distancing order possible for people…
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Tehran Shows 4th Biggest Upturn in Economist’s Livability Index
EghtesadOnline: Tehran is one of the top five cities in the world to have improved by 5 percentage points or more in livability over the past five years, according to the Economist Intelligence…