Measuring of achieving the Economic objectives in Iran’s Constitution

The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran is based on the economic objectives of achieving society's economic independence, uprooting poverty and deprivation, providing the essential needs, achieving full employment, taking the country to a stage of self-sufficiency and providing the circumstances and opportunities for development of private and cooperative sectors. The present article has an attempt by purpose of measuring Iran's five-year development plans in achieving to the economic objectives of the Iran's constitution as well as the goals of Islamic economic theory. For this aim, the paper has been to evaluate and to analyze the policies, goals and the achieved resulting for the five-year development plans by the indicators as economic independence & welfare, economic justice & income distribution, government size, labor market and employment situation and infrastructure development. The results of the calculating the composite index for Five-year Development Plans indicate that the third development plan has the better performance in achieving to the Constitution’s Economic objectives. Also the fourth, first, fifth and second development plans & imposed war period have been to seeing in the next ranking respectively.