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UNINA9910462979803321 |
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Hegland Mary Elaine |
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Days of revolution : political unrest in an Iranian village / / Mary Elaine Hegland |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Villages - Iran |
Political culture - Iran |
Electronic books. |
Iran History Revolution, 1979 |
Iran Politics and government 1979-1997 |
Iran Politics and government 1997- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Historical Aliabad -- Political repression : the Mosaddeq era -- Economic transformation and political space -- Recruitment to revolution -- The final months -- After the revolution : the local uprising -- Aliabad : thirty-four years later. |
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Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies "Aliabad." Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months ahead. She became the only American researcher to witness the Islamic Revolution firsthand over her eighteen-month stay. Days of Revolution offers an insider's view of how regular people were drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution and its aftermath. Conventional wisdom assumes Shi'a religious ideology fueled the revolutionary movement. But Hegland counters that the Revolution spread through much more pragmatic concerns: growing inequality, lack of development and employment opportunities, government corruption. Local expectations of leaders and the political |
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process—expectations developed from their experience with traditional kinship-based factions—guided local villagers' attitudes and decision-making, and they often adopted the religious justifications for Revolution only after joining the uprising. Sharing stories of conflict and revolution alongside in-depth interviews, the book sheds new light on this critical historical moment. Returning to Aliabad decades later, Days of Revolution closes with a view of the village and revolution thirty years on. Over the course of several visits between 2003 and 2008, Mary Hegland investigates the lasting effects of the Revolution on the local political factions and in individual lives. As Iran remains front-page news, this intimate look at the country's recent history and its people has never been more timely or critical for understanding the critical interplay of local and global politics in Iran. |
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UNINA9910796903803321 |
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Autore |
Di Bella Gabriel |
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Energy Subsidies in Latin America and the Caribbean : : Stocktaking and Policy Challenges / / Gabriel Di Bella, Lawrence Norton, Joseph Ntamatungiro, Sumiko Ogawa, Issouf Samaké, Marika Santoro |
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Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2015 |
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1-61635-822-X |
1-4983-7991-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (80 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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NortonLawrence |
NtamatungiroJoseph |
OgawaSumiko |
SamakéIssouf |
SantoroMarika |
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Disciplina |
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Natural resources - Latin America |
Energy industries - Latin America |
Fiscal policy - Latin America |
Government business enterprises - Latin America |
Natural resources - Caribbean Area |
Investments: Energy |
Macroeconomics |
Public Finance |
Taxation |
Energy: Demand and Supply |
Prices |
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Electric Utilities |
Trade Policy |
International Trade Organizations |
Energy industries & utilities |
Investment & securities |
Public finance & taxation |
Energy subsidies |
Fuel prices |
Electricity |
Tariffs |
Oil prices |
Expenditure |
Commodities |
Taxes |
Expenditures, Public |
Electric utilities |
Tariff |
Dominican Republic |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Contents; Executive Summary; I. Introduction; Figures; 1. Energy Subsidies: A Global Perspective (Percent of GDP); II. Taking Stock of Energy Subsidies in LAC countries; Tables; 1. Pre-tax Energy Subsidies (Percent of GDP, average 2011-13); 2. Pre-tax Energy Subsidies (Percent of GDP, average 2011-13; 2. Energy Subsidies and Economic Size (Average 2011-13); A. Fuel Subsidies in LAC; 3. Fuel Subsidies and Energy Richness (Average 2011-13); 4.Gasoline and Diesel Prices Including Taxes; 3. Selected Fuel Price Practices and Financing Regimes in LAC; B. Electricity Subsidies in LAC |
4. Selected Electricity Price Practices and Financing Regimes in LACIII. Policy Challenges for LAC Arising from Energy Subsidies; A. Fiscal Costs; 5. Electricity Subsidies and Measures of Electricity Performance (Average 2011-13); 6. Energy Subsidies and Fiscal Deficits (Percent of GDP, Average 2011-13); B. Fiscal Transparency; 7. Energy Subsidies and Fiscal Revenues (Average 2011-13); C. The Energy Value Chain, SOEs, and Competitiveness; 8. Gasoline and Diesel Prices Net of Taxes; D. External Vulnerabilities; 9. Current Account and Oil Trade Balances |
E. Household Welfare and Income Distribution10. Energy Subsidies and Fiscal Spending (Average 2011-13); F. Environmental and other Negative Externalities; IV. How and When to Reform Subsidy Policy? Experience from LAC countries; 11. Fuel Taxation and Negative Externalities (Current Excise Minus Corrective Tax, US/Liter, 2010); A. How to Rationalize Subsidies?; B. When to Rationalize Subsidies?; Annexes; I: Country Groupings; II: Data Sources; III: A Summary of Energy Policies in LAC countries; Boxes; 1. Measuring Fuel Subsidies by the Price-Gap Approach; 2. Measuring Electricity Subsidies |
3. Energy Subsidies and Country Characteristics4. The Petrocaribe |
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The oil price decline creates an opportunity to dismantle energy subsidies, which escalated with high oil prices. This paper assesses energy subsidies in Latin America and the Caribbean—about 1.8 percent of GDP in 2011–13 (approximately evenly split between fuel and electricity), and about 3.8 percent of GDP including negative externalities. Countries with poorer institutions subsidize more. Energy-rich countries subsidize fuel more, but low-income countries are more likely to subsidize electricity, as are Central America and the Caribbean. Energy subsidies impose fiscal costs, hurting SOEs, competitiveness, and distribution. The paper overviews country experience with subsidy reform, drawing lessons. |
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