Economy

The government will soon allocate 50 percent of the already approved credits for poultry exporters through the agriculture ministry, an official from the ministry announced in an interview with…

Iran Entrepreneurs Forum (IEF) has expressed readiness to engage constructively with entrepreneurs from different parts of the world to contribute to global economic and social development.

Water networks in Qom and Isfahan have been upgraded to a smart system and the smart remote control system will soon be installed for drinking water supply and distribution facilities in Mashhad,…

Studies show that population ageing has occurred in Iran and therefore, in line with the state welfare policy, it is important for the government to attend to the matter of providing proper…

The National Development Fund of Iran (NDF) has allocated 80 million euros for the purchase of freight cars and locomotives, Eco News quoted the CEO of Sina Rail Transport Company as saying.

Increasing the nation's ability to create wealth is a top priority for the government, Ali Tayebnia, the minister of economic affairs and finance said Tuesday.

A top official from the agriculture ministry has dismissed reports suggesting that 92 percent of water supplies are used in the agriculture sector, describing them as misleading for the public as…

A lawmaker on Monday called on the government to place “real privatization” on top of agenda as the first step official need to take to improve competitiveness in the market.

Exports to Iraq totaled $13 billion last year but can rise to $25 billion, the secretary of Iran-Iraq economic development commission Rostam Qasemi has said, calling for a stronger role of Iranian…

Commercial banks provided Iranian customers with 1,463 trillion rials ($45.7 billion) in loans in the first half of the year (ending September 22). The value of loans shows as much as 40 percent…

The value of Iranian exports to the European Union (EU) witnessed a 77 percent increase in August compared with the same month in 2013, reaching $102 million, Eurostat reported.

Trade…

As much as 231,000 tons of different types of commodities were offered on Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) board on Monday.

One of the main goals pursued by the Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO) is to integrate the operational and management system in the capital market which will lead to development of…

Mobarakeh Steel Company increased its steel plates export during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year—which started on March 21—reported IRIB news. The export of the plates during…

Iran’s Association of Olive Oil said producers are expected to yield around 11,000 tons of the product, reported Mehrnews. Mohammad Hatefi, the head of the association, said out of 110,000 tons of…

A group of auto industry experts from Germany are expected to cooperate with Iran’s major carmaker Iran Khodro in its future projects, Hashem Yekeh Zareh, the company’s CEO told ISNA yesterday.…

The municipalities will participate in the government’s newly announced “social” housing scheme, the deputy minister of roads and urban development told ILNA on Monday. The municipalities will…

Total trade between Iran and Armenia stands at $300 million in value, and the number is expected to increase dramatically in the next few years, said first vice president Es’haq Jahangiri on…

The deputy minister of energy announced that the plan to transfer water from Vanak town in Semirom district of Isfahan Province to Dasht-e-Rafsanjan, Kerman Province, which was approved 18 years…

Negotiation is the only way to settle the row between Iran and Turkey over truck transit fees, the embassy of Iran in Turkey said in a statement, ISNA reported.

“We do not…

As food accounts for one fourth of household expenses, 25 percent of the gross domestic production in Iran is also dependent on food products, head of the food and drug administration said.

One of the prominent facets of the developed economies is economic transparency which comes from transparency in objectives, internal decision-making process, economic forecasts and models,…

The president of Kyrgyz Chamber of Commerce, Marat Sharshekeev, has announced that his country will seize opportunities for increasing trade ties with Iran, FNA reported from Bishkek on…

A “unified commercial window” will be opened on March 6, 2015, an online mechanism initiated by the government to facilitate inter-agency trade in Iran, said an official with the ministry of…

Twenty-nine percent of Iran’s oil revenues has gone to the National Development Fund of Iran (NDFI) so for this year (starting March 21, 2014), according to the fund’s deputy for economic affairs…