Inequality
Iran introduced a basic income scheme, and something strange happened
A new report on an ongoing cash-transfer program launched in 2011 in Iran may buck the usual trends associated with it.
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Industry
Economy
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System Initiative
Global Issue
Industry
Economy
Key Issue
System Initiative
Iran
Gender Parity
Were women the big winners in Iran's election?
A record number of women are expected to enter Iran’s parliament.
Iran
The turbulent history of Iran-Saudi relations
This article is published in collaboration with Reuters Media Express. Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic relations with Iran on Sunday over the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, in a dee...
Science & Technology
6 trends shaping Iran’s tech sector
In the past decade, the idea of a nuclear Iran has overshadowed a far more interesting debate about Iran’s non-nuclear economic potential. A potential that, if realized, could very well r...
Economic Growth and Social Inclusion
What next for Iran’s economy?
Just hours after the Vienna agreement with Iran was signed, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter to share his thoughts: “Today is a new chapter to work towards growth and deve...
Nuclear Security
Why was the Iran deal not struck a decade ago?
The only thing to lament about the agreement reached by Iran and the P5+1 (the UN Security Council’s five permanent members – China, Britain, France, Russia, and the United States – plus ...
Iran
Will the Iran nuclear deal last?
Reaching an agreement with Iran over its nuclear weapons programme has been a long and arduous process. The deal is a tremendous achievement for non-proliferation and regional security – ...
Nuclear Security
Who owns the world’s nuclear warheads?
In an historic agreement after negotiations lasting nearly two years, Iran and six major world powers reached an agreement on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme. If all parties ratify...
Nuclear Security
5 key points of the Iran nuclear deal explained
Whether it lasts and how history will regard it remain to be seen, but the nuclear agreement signed on Tuesday in Vienna by six world powers and Iran promises to have a sweeping impact on...
Nuclear Security
Iran deal: What happens next?
After 12 years of tedious negotiations, Iran and the “P5+1” countries (China, France, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, plus Germany) have reached a comprehensive agreeme...
Geo-economics
Iran deal row, Libor fallout and the new breed of 3D printers
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has accused the US of distorting the nuclear framework agreed with world powers. Washington‘s fact sheet about the framework, agreed last we...
Energy
Why Europe backs the US on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems close to ordering a general mobilization of his country’s military, and Republicans in the United States are preparing for a ferocious batt...
Employment and Skills
Eurozone unemployment, Iranian talks and the gene influence
The daily briefing “FirstFT” from the Financial Times. Unemployment is here to stay in Europe, where it now stands at 11.2 per cent. The ECB projects that one in 10 workers in the eurozon...