Pattern and determinants of public budget allocation to border regions in Iran

Hossein Mirshojaeian Hosseini and Shinji Kaneko

No 2-4, IDEC DP2 Series from Hiroshima University, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC)

Abstract: The historical centripetal behavior of the government has made the border regions as periphery of the central areas in Iran. The regional disparities in Iran root in the economic structure of the country. Iran is one of the main exporters of petroleum and natural gas. The huge revenues of natural resources have reduced the dependence of central government to domestic economic activities and made Iran one of the closest economies in the world. This paper studies the pattern and determinants of public budget allocation to the border regions in Iran over the period 1989?2007. The results show that different characteristics of the border provinces such as geographical position, economic conditions, type of borders, distances from the capital, and natural resource richness influence the level and trend of their realized budgets.

Keywords: Border regions; Provincial budgets; Iran; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 O53 R51 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2012-01
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