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Although it is widely recognized that demographic transition is not an uninterrupted process, fertility swings have been met with curiosity among demographers and population economists. Iran's experience of population growth after the Revolution points to a double paradox of a steep and...

Interest in economic policy and performance in Iran under the Islamic Republic remains vigorous two decades after the Revolution. Since 1979, Iran has undergone important socio-economic and institutional changes and has been affected by significant economic and political upheavals. This paper...

Despite the long tradition established by the Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) theorem and copious literature on the so-called Leontief Paradox, economists have not methodically linked the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's well-known water-scarcity problem to its mounting food imports. This...