Story of the Week

• 

  40% increase in salaries and still not enough

  April 4, 2021 0

  We are back! I know, when we sent the last issue of Iran Economy in Brief in 2020, we promised to be back in January 2021. However, life got very tough (all of a sudden) [...]

• 

  30% of Iranian Top Exporters Are Homeless, claims the Central Bank

  October 30, 2020 0

  Since the formation of the Silk Road, Persians established themselves as very talented merchants. If ancient Chinese and Indians struggled to sell their products, they were advised to give it to a Persian trader. “They [...]

• 

  IMF economic forecasts for 2021 sound surreal!

  October 15, 2020 0

  Over the past years, if not decades, we have got used not to take seriously the government’s economic forecasts. However, it seems that we should get used to take even international institutions’ forecasts not seriously [...]

• 

  Butterflies from Iranian tables like other products

  September 25, 2020 0

  We just watch as butterflies from Iranian tables toward the sky, like many other products: cheese, eggs, meat, rice, etc.* The method is now a classic: first there are rumors that the price of a [...]