Journal Of Development Economics and Planning
Year:2016 | Volume:4 | Issue:2 |Papers Count:5

Abbasi Mosque was registered on the 15th of Daymah 1310 (1931) in the national index. The mosque is one of the architectural masterpieces, Kashy Kary and carvings in the eleventh century AH (the Safavid era) is a historical mosque and one of the country's historical and cultural attractions. The aim of this study was to estimate the economic value of tourism of Abbasi Mosque as a heritage tourism attractions and measuring the willingness to pay by induiduals. The data were collocted by completing 550 questionnaires and interviews with visitors to the mosque. To analyze the factors affecting willingness to pay, the ordered probit model was used. Among the factors affecting willingness to pay, the effect of family size, level of knowledge and awareness, conservation of cultural heritage, attitude, level of income and entrance fee were statistically significant. Furthermore, on the findings, 5.94 persent of visitors were willing to pay to visit Abbasi Mosque. Furthermore, on the average, willingness to pay to visit Abbasi Mosque, was 561,375 Rials per household and the number of domestic visitors in 2010, tourism economic value of the cultural heritage of the domestic visitors and consumption surplus were over 3,560 and 2,370 million Rials, respectively.

Meanwhile in the agricultural sector of developing countries ability and significant capacity in the supply of food and materials to industries is of particular importance, Iran’s economy is no exception. Agricultural sector as one of the major sectors of the economy is under the impact of macro economic policies and decisions. In Iran inflation has been one of the most important economic problems in recent decades. For this purpose, in this paper we examine the existence of inflation in agriculture. To achieve this the paid prices and received prices will be evaluated. Using data series 1970-2010 of the central bank and Johansen co-integration test, it was concluded that the paid prices and received prices are cumulative. But a long-term relationship between paid and received prices are not as a one-to-one type. So inflation on the paid prices is more than the received prices. In that case the cost pressure on the farmers, and remove the cost pressures in the agricultural sector is the need for government intervention and superintend of prices.

Good governance is a new model of sustainable human development with the mechanism of interaction between governmental sector, private sector and civil society in order to use all its capabilities for their comprehensive development. Strong civil society accompanied with modern and developmental-oriented state can create areas of good governance therefore, comprehensive development with the least time and damage. In every society, its members are the most important factor in development. This study emphasized on the importance of human development, searching the requirement of good governance for achieving sustainable human development. Meditation and rethinking on the quality of each governance components and applying appropriate strategies to strengthen them, perhaps is the best model for sustainable human development. The survey results of the good governance components represent deteriorating conditions of these indexes during a period of time starting 1996 and ending 2010. Iran due to many advantages, not only human resources also natural resources, has abundant potential to achieve human development.

Until now what has been neglected in subsidies in the country is accurate targeting of this policy, until now subsidizing has been in a public form. Therefore, targeted subsidies can overcome the problem. However, targeted subsidies, in the absence of favorable conditions, may cause serious damage to various economic sectors. This article tries to diagnose the problems of targeted subsidy and show the alternatives to reduce the problems. The methodology used in this research was a descriptive one and therefore we used the statistics contained in the central bank's balance sheet and energy Statistical Yearbook. The results reflect the fact that the subsidy project (i.e., not targeted) as it stands now will lead to a fiscal illusion and increases the dependence on oil revenues, infation and financial funds disorders.

This study aimed to analyze the impact of government support policies on processing of agricultural products. For the analysis, a supply function was estimated using Iran’s pooled data of the firms of the agricultureal processing industries for the period of 2001 to 2010. Government support policies was separated into two parts, energy subsidies and bank facilities. Results showed a 10 percent increase in energy subsidy would increase the supply of agricultural processing product (SAPP) by 1.2 percent and a 10% increase in bank facilities would increase SAPP by 3.4 percent. According to the results it is recommended that the government gradually reduces these subsidies and pushes the short term subsidy support further.