State and Rural Development in the Post-Revolutionary Iran - by A Shakoori (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Rural reform policy has been an important part of the government policy in post-revolutionary Iran. This book seeks to examine the post-revolutionary rural policies and their socio-economic impact on rural people. After reviewing the main debates on rural development literature and providing the historical background of agrarian change in the pre-revolutionary era, it examines the post-revolutionary rural reforms in separate parts: the effects of the government agricultural policies on agricultural performance and the post-revolutionary reorganisational policies and the impact of rural strategies on the socio-economy of the rural life at village level.

About the Author

ALI SHAKOORI is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran.