Financial Tribune - Sixty percent of jobs in Iran lack health and retirement benefits, which are also not entitled to government support offered to businesses during the coronavirus crisis. According to a report by the research arm of the Iranian Parliament, Majlis Research Center, 61.7% of working women and 59.4% of working men were employed in ...

Financial Tribune - With stock market indicators heading upward at a regular pace and fresh money pouring in the bourse from an ever-increasing number of investors, the Majlis Research Center stressed the need to take appropriate measures to balance the market by boosting the supply side. The parliamentary thinks tank welcomed the expansion of the ...

Financial Tribune - Irans agricultural production has grown from 20 million tons to more than 119 million tons over the period under review, registering a sixfold upsurge The agriculture sectors share in generating Irans gross domestic product (GDP) increased from 3.1% in the fiscal 1977-78, the year before the Islamic Revolution, to 6.2% in 2017-...

Financial Tribune - In a report on the controversial policy of the government to subsidize foreign currency for basic imports, the Majlis Research Center said it is ill-advised and a waste of scarce national resources. The center highlighted deep flaws in the policy compared to its meager benefits and criticized the Rouhani administration for perpetuation ...

Financial Tribune - The Majlis Research Center says a new government plan to divest its assets in assorted companies via exchange-traded funds is not privatization in the true sense. As per Note 2 of the budget bill for the next fiscal year (March 2020-21) the government can divest its stake in state-run companies via ETFs. The bill obliges executive ...

Financial Tribune - The Majlis Research Center, the influential parliamentary think tank, says the budget bill for the next fiscal year (March 2020-21) is imbued with overestimations on the revenue side. It said the higher projections on revenues emanate from the governments disregard for studies done to adjust budgets in the past. MRC ascribes ...

Financial Tribune - In an analytical report appraising measures taken to curb inflation, the Majlis Research Center says the government has resorted largely to temporary and micro measures to curb inflation and control liquidity but in doing so has failed to address macro variables. Matching government measures against proposals made earlier by ...

Financial Tribune - In need of new sources of revenue to compensate for the budget deficit emanating from steep declines in oil exports and reduce the ballooning liquidity, the idea of taxing bank deposits has come to the fore again, raising the possibility that the government may introduce the scheme in the 2020-21 fiscal budget. The issue was ...

MNA The Iranian Parliament's Research Center has held a session to discuss the Iran oil outlook in 2040. The Iranian Parliament's Research Centers report entitled Iran oil outlook in 2040 reads given the global policies to reduce carbon emissions and the emergence of new technologies for extraction of unconventional resources, Iran's oil reserves ...

Financial Tribune - Iran's ranking has improved across several indices in World Bank Doing Business reports in recent years because the country has increased its data-sharing with the bank, which had previously been flawed, announced the research arm of the parliament. "A review of WB reports during 2014-17 indicates that during this period, only ...