چکیده:
Increasing the private sector participation in economic activities and promoting competition were among the First 5 Year Socio-Economic Plan of Iran. This paper will examine the probable changes in monopoly and the size of government during this plan. By considering Concentration ratio as a proxy measure for the size of monopoly and competition, we found the Manufacturing sector of Iranian economy was highly concentrated in the beginning as well as at the end of the First Economic Plan. Furthermore, the share of government in economic activities increased during this plan, which is in contrast to the targets of the First 5 Year Socio-Economic plan and Iranian Structural Adjustment Program.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"In addition, as can be seen from Table 1, the share of concentrated industries of both sale and value added of the manufacturing sector increased during the period of First 5 Year Economic Plan.
The data in Table 1 and 2 reveal that the manufacturing sector of the Iranian economy is highly concentrated and implementing the First 5 Year Economic Plan led to no significant changes in concentration ratios or the share of concentrated industries of sale and value added.
5- Public Firms and Market Concentration Since the income from oil exports belongs to government and Article 44 of the constitution of The Islamic Republic facilitates government intervention in economic activities, it is to be expected that a considerable proportion of the manufacturing sector was under the exclusive control of state-owned firms.
To assess the influence of government on market concentrations, the shares of 200 largest state-owned firms in sale, value added and employment of total manufacturing sector were investigated.
Table 5: The share of 200 largest state-owned firms in manufacturing sector* Year Sale(%) Value added (%) Employment (%) 1988 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 54 55 58 61 57 59 54.
Furthermore the share of concentrated industries in value added and sale of the manufacturing sector had increased at the end of the year 1994, indicating that the plan’s targets were not achieved."
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