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The Basic Income Road to Reforming Iran's Price Subsidies
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Hamid Tabatabai
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October 5, 2011
Iran has become the first country in the world to provide a de facto basic income to all its citizens. This article reviews the development of the main component of Iran’s economic reform plan – the replacement of fuel and food subsidies with direct cash transfers to the population – and shows how a system of universal, regular and unconditional cash transfers emerged almost by default as a by-product of an attempt to transform an inefficient and unfair system of price subsidies. The main features of the cash subsidy system are compared with those of a basic income; then some lessons from this experience are drawn that may enhance the prospects of basic income as a realistic proposition.
Published Online: 2011-10-5
©2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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- Front Matter
- Content
- List of Contributors
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- The Basic Income Road to Reforming Iran's Price Subsidies
- Overcoming Dividend Skepticism: Why the World's Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Not Paying Basic Income Dividends
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