The Bankruptcy of Pension Funds and Wage Arrears/ Sina Yousefi

In recent decades, the country’s pension funds—especially the Civil Servants Pension Fund, the Social Security Organization, and the Armed Forces Pension Fund—have faced a deep structural crisis. This crisis stems from chronic imbalance between resources and expenditures, unprofessional policymaking, and weak corporate governance in managing these institutions. The share of public budget contributions to cover […]...

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How did Iran become poor in the last ten years?/ Amir Aghayi

Last month, the publication of an advertisement on the “Divar” website regarding a request from a poor family in Semiram, located in Isfahan province, was met with a lot of reactions from social media users. In the published advertisement, this family has asked citizens not to throw away their “extra food” and to give it […]...

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