VOL. XLV

No 24

17-June-2002

IRAN

Irans Privatization Saga

By Jahangir Amuzegar

Inthe following article for MEES, Jahangir Amuzegar, a distinguished economist and former member ofthe IMF Executive Board, reviews Iransprivatization program.

In early May 2002,the head of the year-old Privatization Organization of Iran stunned theaudience of a Prospects for Privatization conference by announcing anambitious new denationalization plan. His agency, he said, intended toaccelerate the sale of state...