The Basic Income Road to Reforming Iran's Price Subsidies

Tabatabai Hamid

Basic Income Studies, 2011, vol. 6, issue 1, 24

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: basic income; Iran; price subsidies; reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2202/1932-0183.1172

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