Oil, state, and industrialization in Iran /

An examination of the problems of economic growth and structural change in oil-exploring economies which focuses on the experience of Iran. The author argues that oil income can make a substantial contribution to industrial growth, subject to the adoption of appropriate policy measures.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karshenas, Massoud
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Table of Contents:
  • A framework for the analysis of the role of state in the oil-exporting developing economies; capitalist development and the transformation of the Iranian state
  • 1800-1920; rise of the modern state and capital accumulation
  • the interwar period; state, oil and the new institutions of accumulation
  • 1953-77; role of the state in capital accumulation
  • the semi-liberal phase; the role of agricultural in the industrialization process; state intervention and restructuring of industrial capital
  • 1963-77; oil income, structural bottlenecks and economic growth.