01780cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF007313 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781462303212 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Guillaume, Dominique. Iran : The Chronicles of the Subsidy Reform / Dominique Guillaume, Roman Zytek, Mohammad Reza Farzin. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011. 1 online resource (28 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students On December 18, 2010, Iran increased domestic energy and agricultural prices by up to 20 times, making it the first major oil-exporting country to reduce substantially implicit energy subsidies. This paper reviews the economic and technical issues involved in the planning and early implementation of the reform, including the transfers to households and the public relations campaign that were critical to the success of the reform. It also looks at the reform from a chronological standpoint, in particular in the final phases of the preparation. The paper concludes by an overview of the main challenges for the second phase of the reform. Mode of access: Internet Reza Farzin, Mohammad. Zytek, Roman. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/167 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2011/167/001.2011.issue-167-en.xml IMF e-Library