Housing costs and inequality in post-revolutionary Iran

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan; Hassan F. Gholipour; Jeremy Nguyen

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95025-6_5

Housing costs and inequality in post-revolutionary Iran

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan
, Hassan F. Gholipour
, Jeremy Nguyen

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Abstract

In this chapter, we investigate the association between housing prices and income inequality in Iran over the last three decades. In the recent period, Iran has had the highest average Gini coefficient in the Middle East (see Table 5.1), a region where inequality has triggered social tension, political instability, and armed conflict (Azeng and Yogo 2013). Moreover, debates on inequality and poverty have featured prominently in Iran's domestic politics since the 1979 Revolution. For example, popular dissatisfaction with inequality is believed to have contributed to an electoral victory in 2005 for the populist presidential candidate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Farzanegan 2009)"”whose subsequent management of the national economy nonetheless resulted in negative economic growth as well as double-digit inflation and unemployment rates.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran: Developments Since the Revolution
Editors	Mohammad R. Farzanegan, Pooya Alaedini
Place of Publication	U.S.
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	111-128
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781349950256
ISBN (Print)	9781349950249
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95025-6_5
Publication status	Published - 2016

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 1 No Poverty
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Iran
construction industry
housing
income distribution
prices

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