Iran’s business future fettered by politics

Iran's strong headline economic figures are out of kilter with the weakness of its private sector and feeble foreign direct investment flows. Can the authorities boost private sector growth and investment inflows so long as influential ruling groups remain suspicious of free enterprise?

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HIGH OIL PRICES pushed up Iran’s real GDP growth by an impressive 6.7% in the financial year ending March 20 2004, according to the IMF. Urging the Iranian authorities to take advantage of these favourable conditions, the Fund stressed in August 2004 that “the current period of high oil prices… provides an opportunity to implement major reforms that would put the economy on the long-term path of high growth and job creation”.

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