VOL. XLII

No 49

6-December-1999

IRAN

Iran: Energy Subsidies

The following is the full text of a study on Iranianenergy subsidies by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The article appearedas a chapter in a recently published IEA book entitled World Energy Outlook Looking at Energy Subsidies: Getting the Prices Right. The book demonstratesthat "energy resources are significantly underpriced in eight of thelargest countries outside the OECD, which represent collectively around aquarter of world...