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All tagged devaluation
◢ The experience of countries such as China show that currency devaluation can be managed and even turned beneficial for the economy by enabling the growth of exports. But in Iran, the devaluation of the rial has never been proactively managed, and subsequent administrations have only sought to respond to repeated currency crises, about once each decade. As Iran faces another such episode, it remains to be seen whether a real monetary policy might finally emerge.
◢ The bazaar of today is not the bazaar of forty years ago, and no longer plays the same role as a key actor in Iran’s popular political mobilizations. The recent bazaar closures reflect primarily the economic self-interest of bazaar elite, who sense an opportunity to put the brakes on reforms that threaten their unique capacities for lucrative arbitrage. Protests are being co-opted as a political tool at the expense of genuine civil society mobilization.
