Iran Cash Subsidies

Iran: Monthly Cash Subsidies to Continue

EghtesadOnline: Monthly payments of cash subsidies will remain in place during the next fiscal year (March 2018-19) until a formula is devised to remove high-income earners from the list of recipients…
2018-02-06 07:49
Gov’t: Tripling Cash Subsidies to the Poor Possible

EghtesadOnline: Government Spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht believes it is possible to triple cash subsidies paid to the poor.
2017-05-31 10:01
No Tripling of Cash Subsidies

EghtesadOnline: To raise cash subsidy payments to 2.5 million rials (about $66) per head, the prices of energy carriers need to rise sixfold.
2017-05-06 14:37
Govt. steeply raises cash handouts for Iranians

EghtesadOnline: Impoverished families in Iran will get a raise of up to 50% in monthly allowance, under a program which had been adopted for sometime but will go to force from Saturday night.
2017-04-15 13:33
Have-Nots to Receive More Cash Subsidies

EghtesadOnline: The government’s monthly grant of cash subsidies to families and individuals with limited resources who receive aid from the State Welfare Organization and Imam Khomeini Relief…
2017-04-15 09:16
Higher Cash Subsidy Payment: Mirage or Reality?

EghtesadOnline: With an eye to the May 19 presidential election, Hamid-Reza Baqaie, a probable presidential candidate who happens to be one of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s close confidants,…
2017-04-06 17:27
$9.9b Earmarked for Cash Subsidies Next Year

EghtesadOnline: Lawmakers voted on Saturday for the government to earmark 375 trillion rials ($9.91 billion) for cash subsidies in the new Iranian year (to start March 21, 2017).
2017-03-06 05:43
Government Spokesman: 4.85m Cut From Cash Subsidy List

EghtesadOnline: Government Spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said on Saturday that 4,853,386 people have been removed from the list of cash subsidies recipients as of January 20.
2017-03-05 16:39
The Chronicles of Subsidy Reform

EghtesadOnline: A paper recently authored by economists Roman J. Zytek and Mohammad Reza Farzin has reviewed the experience of Iran’s Targeted Subsidies Reform. The study addresses several criticisms…
2017-02-02 19:34
Economist Breaks Ranks Over Cash Subsidies

EghtesadOnline: Governments must honor their contracts, even those made under previous administrations, says Iranian professor of economics at Virginia Tech, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani.
2017-01-31 13:53
Cash Subsidies Hit $60 Billion in 7 Yrs.

EghtesadOnline: Around 2,400 trillion rials ($60 billion at market exchange rate) have been paid as cash subsidies under the so-called "Subsidy Reform Plan" ever since the controversial scheme…
2017-01-22 05:41