Winter 2010-2011
A Conversation with Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Media Feature
By Meredith Blake and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, a research associate with the Dubai Initiative, discusses the impact of sanctions on Iran, youth unemployment and "waithood" in the Middle East, and the work of the Dubai Initiative with communications intern Meredith Blake.
Milad Avazbeigi
March 3, 2011
Iran: Subsidy Reform amid Regional Turmoil
Journal Article
By Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Winter 2010-11
"Featured Fellow: Djavad Salehi-Isfahani"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By Meredith Blake and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani is an associate with the Belfer Center's Dubai Initiative and a professor of economics at Virginia Tech. He researches impact on sanctions on Iran as well as the impact of youth unemployment on the Middle East.
November 15, 2010
After the Stakeout
In the News
By Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Prospects for talks between the P5+1 and Iran are poor. With a swing to the right in mid-term U.S. Congressional elections, Iran is steadied for a tussle it believes the U.S. and Israel cannot win.
August 2010
Iranian Youth in Times of Economic Crisis
Working Paper, volume Dubai Initiative Working Paper
By Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
This paper will review the evidence on youth transitions in Iran, using recent survey data to show how the economic crisis since 2008 has affected youth transitions to employment and to marriage.
August 2010
Iran's Youth, The Unintended Victims of Sanctions
Working Paper
By Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
This paper argues that prolonged major economic disruptions in Iran, caused by the Western sanctions or military action, risk alienating Iran's youth, with serious long-term consequences for the United States and its allies in the region.
October 30, 2009
Iran: Reform of Energy Subsidies
Journal Article, Monthly Review
By Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
At long last and after decades of talking about doing something about the subsidies, there is a bill before Iran's majlis to target (but not remove) subsidies. I could not locate the bill itself but my impression is that it only addresses energy subsidies and not other subsidies such as food and medicine. So far only 5 of the bill's 14 articles have been passed, but the government already has the mandate to raise prices on energy products over the next five years
AP Photo
September 30, 2009
Iran Sanctions: Who Really Wins?
Op-Ed, The Brookings Institution
By Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
US and Iranian representatives meet this week at a time when trust between the two countries is at a low ebb following the revelation last week of a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear facility under construction and the test firing of Iran's long-range missiles on September 28. Meanwhile, the Obama administration's policy of engagement with Iran has emerged as little more than the old policy of "carrots and sticks."
