The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe economic consequences in Southern Africa, resulting in an unprecedented decline in production and employment. Similar policy responses have emerged across the region, centred on temporary and inadequate relief for workers and businesses; very limited fiscal...

Klappentext: Over three decades after the Iranian Revolution reconfigured the strategic landscape in the Middle East, scholars are still trying to decipher its aftereffects. Suzanne Maloney provides the first comprehensive overview of Iran's political economy since the 1979 revolution and offers...

1. One hundred years of oil income and the Iranian economy : a curse or a blessing? / Kamiar Mohaddes and M. Hashem Pesaran -- 2. Institutional change, policy challenges and macroeconomic performance, 1979-2004 / Hassan Hakimian -- 3. The political economy of petro populism and reform, 1997-2011...