نشریه اقتصاد توسعه و برنامه ریزی
سال چهارم شماره 2 (پاییز و زمستان 1394)

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.

Different countries apply two means including financial policy that is accessible for government and monetary policies that are at disposal of the Central Bank to regulate the economy and its balance. The Central Bank is designer of the monetary policies in each country; of course, its successful performance is related to the consistent implementation with the financial policies of government. Assuming the existence of enough independence of the Central Bank, the monetary policies play a very impressive role on improving the national economy and achieving the economic development in today's world. This is why adherents of the monetary policies (monetarists) are considered among the most prominent scholars of the economy. On the other hand, monetary policies are under special attention of policy-makers due to short-term internal interruption as well. The approval of monetary policies does not require to a lot bureaucracy and thus is interested and accepted by economic policy-makers, but it is sometimes unexpected and unintended in addition to its impact on economic variables. To apply a successful monetary policy, it is necessary that the monetary authorities properly evaluate the time and the effect of these policies on economic variables. Turbulence of monetary and currency system has become a great problem for Iran’s economy in the past decade. High liquidity and its disproportion to monetary and production needs of the country, as well as its composition changes, inflation, and lack of control over the currency market reduce the efficiency of the Central Bank, and it is necessary that the independence of Central Bank to be seriously considered. Thus in this research, the variables of gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, liquidity, oil prices, and government expenditures have been used within an economic model by using the VECM method and quarterly data for the period from 2000:2 to 2012:1. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of monetary policies (taking into consideration the conditions of oil economy) on Iran's gross domestic product (GDP) and analyze the Central Bank policies in the last decade particularly period from 2000:2 to 2012:1. In this article, the process of gross domestic product (GDP) has been considered as representative of the national economy. The results show that monetary policy despite the different fluctuations has no a significant effect on national production in comparison to financial policy.

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.