Do changes towards left center parties in Europe constitute a positive sum? With prolonged austerity measures across the continent, it seems the frustrated voters are moving away from passive…

With the prospect of Iran hosting a growing number of international businesses and multinational companies, market research companies are poised to see a boost in their fortunes.  Finding…

Opening up to the world with vision and foresight or hanging on to the cumbersome and visibly unsuccessful centralized systems is one key question for Iran’s economy post-sanctions. For countries…

Despite the Central Bank of Iran Governor Valiollah Seif having said that there is no need for a currency bourse, the government seems unmoved. It has been pushing for a centralized foreign…

F ew would contest the charge that Iran’s banking industry is not up to the mark. Confluence of bad loans, mismanagement plus the mountain of government debt has, to name a few, called into…

The 2016-17 budgetary directives indicate a tight fiscal policy that is contradictory to the inflation-reducing monetary policy since only current expenditure absorbs the growth in the budget.

While there is no dearth of news and analysis on the success of the Rouhani administration in taming galloping inflation, it is apparently under mounting pressure by consumers waiting for prices…

News and reports that foreign companies are preparing to return to Iran puts a big smile on most Iranians. While the logic seems pretty simple and based on the fact that increase in competition…

Most of the success of IMF loans in developing countries is through increase in consumer spending, which was Keynes idea for economic growth and it has been criticized a great deal as high level…

One of the biggest failures of governments is indecisiveness about the catastrophes unfolding around them. While it takes days for a team of experts to produce a report of cost-benefit analysis of…

 President Hassan Rohani has regularly reminded foreign companies of the investment attraction of Iran because of its massive market. Just recently, the government announced major tax breaks…

Do Scottish people follow the same path of Macbeth?  Is it all about power and not economic prosperity? What is independence about?