Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … subsequent taxation in Iran. We use rich micro survey data covering more than 36,000 Iranian households in 2009. Our micro … tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …

policy is the most successful policy for addressing rents-induced inequality in Iran compared with the alternative policies. …Resource-rich economies and ethnically divided societies are linked to higher income inequality at the macro level. Our … goal is to empirically examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and …

This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the … development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of … for Iran, using a weighted average of other comparable countries that mirror pre-sanction Iran, but did not experience …

provinces at the bottom of the ranking list for several decades. Review shows deprivation as a result of inequality in Iran. …This study is an attempt to locate deprived areas and explore the causes of spatially concentrated deprivation in Iran …