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Iran - Creating fiscal space for social protection through energy subsidy reform

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Stefan Urban
ILO
2019
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Iran is an example of how oil exporting countries can create fiscal space to expand social protection and to help mitigate inequality and reduce poverty. From December 2010 to 2016 the government progressively decreased the energy subsidies; as a consequence, domestic oil prices increased. The decrease in energy subsidies contributed to the additional fiscal space for other areas such as the social and health sectors.

SPF brief 5279 Islamic Republic of Iran
04.09.2019