چکیده:
Evaluating the ratio of the annual budget to the trend of poverty is possible in two ways: First, by examining the amount of allocations to matters that affect poverty. Second, by focusing on the orientations and policies adopted. In our country's budgeting experience, the first approach has always been on the agenda, and for this reason, it has usually provided policymakers with short-term peace of mind, as they believed that by allocating resources for employment and the basic needs of the people, there was no longer any room for concern, while performances have usually shown opposite results. This article, emphasizing the second orientation and its various solutions, points out and examines the inadequacies of the first approach through an investigation of the failed structural adjustment experience in Iran.
خلاصه ماشینی:
For example, in this recent period, within the framework of implementing the structural adjustment program in our country, based on calculations performed by officials of the Planning and Budget Organization, although the central goal of the said program was to attempt to adopt an approach to optimize the resource allocation system, due to the adoption of a rent-seeking attitude in practice, highly irregular wastages and extravagances occurred in the Iranian economy.
(2) It is through such a set of policies that in each of the country, continental, and global studies conducted regarding the performance of the structural adjustment program, there is a kind of consensus that the growth rate of gross domestic product in periods when the aforementioned program was not implemented is significantly higher than in the periods when this program is implemented (3) As far as the issue of poverty is concerned, even 5-digit inflation rates have not been unprecedented in the adjustment experience (4) Based on documents prepared by UNICEF, since the implementation of this program until now, 500,000 children annually lose their lives due to budgetary constraints imposed on the health and medical sectors of developing countries (5) At the continental level, too, research by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa shows that during the 1980s, which is remembered as the "lost decade" due to the dominance of the structural adjustment program, in countries that have implemented this program, the costs of affairs ______________________________ 1 - Sebastian Edwards and Ahmad - Liaqat "Economic Adjustment and Exchange Retes in Developing countries," The University of shicago press 1986, p.
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