VOL. XLI

No. 31

3-August-1998

IRAN

Iranian-Indonesian Parallels

The structural economic flaws that are plaguing Asia offer not onlysome interesting lessons for Middle East economies but also some interesting parallels. Ina recent report, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Research (DKBR) compares the Indonesian casewith that of pre-revolutionary Iran while cautioning against "carrying the comparisontoo far". "Indonesia in recent months has increasingly looked likepre-revolutionary Iran," claims DKBR...