Think Tank
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Think Tank Deliberates on Government’s Budgetary Woes
EghtesadOnline: With oil prices in freefall and the coronavirus spreading like wildfire, the government will get more and more worked up this year than the last, especially because of the fiscal…
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Think Tank Explores Poverty Trap in Iran
EghtesadOnline: In its latest report, Majlis Research Center, the influential research arm of the Iranian Parliament, has singled out a set of potential deterrents to poverty reduction in Iran’s…
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Iran Sanctions on Washington-Based Think Tank Draw US Ire
EghtesadOnline: Iran's decision to add a Washington-based think tank to its list of sanctioned entities for promoting "economic terrorism" against Tehran has drawn an angry reaction from the…
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Iran Parliament's Think Tank Has Misgivings About Scrapping USD
EghtesadOnline: The Majlis Research Center says a parliamentary bill wanting to scrap the US currency from Iran’s overseas transactions would further add to the already detrimental effects of…
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Gov't Think Tank Sounds Alarm on Iran Industrial Growth
EghtesadOnline: The Institute for Trade Studies and Research, the research arm of the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade, has conducted a study of the industrial sector role in the economy…
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Iran Parliamentary Think Tank Warns About Sovereign Wealth Fund Future
EghtesadOnline: Share of the National Development Fund of Iran from the export of oil and natural gas derivatives are estimated in next year’s budget bill (March 2019-20) at $6.7 billion.
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Iran’s Economic Freedom Index Improves
EghtesadOnline: The Washington DC-based think tank, Heritage Foundation, released their annual Index of Economic Freedom for 2019 on Wednesday, which shows Iran gaining a higher score compared…
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Iran Parliament Think Tank Forecasts Grim Outlook on Economic Growth
EghtesadOnline: The performance of Iran’s real economy was weaker than expected in the first half of the current fiscal year (March 21-Sept. 22, 2018), a report by the research arm of Iranian…
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Iran Parliament’s Think Tank: Forex Subsidy Policy Impractical
EghtesadOnline: The Majlis Research Center, the parliament’s research arm, has taken a dim view of the preferential forex rate policy of the government in the past months and warned about the…
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Iran Parliament's Think Tank Forecasts Lower Crude Prices
EghtesadOnline: Forecasting the future of the oil market is crucial, especially for countries where oil export is the lifeblood of the economy and budgets are constructed, deconstructed and reconstruc…