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This article examines main factors that determined Iran's oil production and investment policy between 2006 and 2015 based on the quarterly data for Iran oil production and oil export that has been showing negative and zero growth rate due to international sanctions. Though in some of Iran's oil sector the sanctions were waived and exempted from under Iran Sanction Act (ISA), Iran was not able to fulfill foreign investment contracts even though the nuclear deal has removed legal obstacles for increasing production of oil and bringing investments in the petroleum sector.

This article addresses the evolution of Iran's oil revenues during the last three decades. Iran's oil revenues increased substantially due to 1974 oil shocks. So much so, the oil revenues became the main source of government export revenues for the investigated decades. However, there are a number of factors which have affected Iran's oil revenues such as world supply and demand, oil price fluctuations, country's production capacities, Iran-Iraq war, U.S-led sanctions and domestic consumption. The mentioned factors contributed to the performance of Iran's oil sector in GDP in post-revolution era.

This article discusses the performance of the economy during the 1990s. Iran had to deal with restoring and sustaining economic growth; bringing about an increase in per capita income in spite of rapid population growth; expanding employment opportunities and promoting price stability. In the long-run, there was a need to change the nature of the economy and diversify away from heavy reliance on oil. In response to these challenges, the government launched an economic liberalisation programme. However, this article argues that the economic liberalisation plan could not overcome the internal and external imbalances that the economy was afflicted with. During the 1990s, inflation intensified and government foreign debt rose to high levels; and the main features of the Iranian economy such as oil and import dependency remained more or less unaffected. Thus, the measures adopted by the government were only able to partially correct the effects of macro imbalances.

<p>The purpose of this study is to empirically evaluate social and cultural reproduction theory in the pursuit of education. Thus, the theory of social reproduction, cultural reproduction and social capital have been utilized to develop the theoretical framework. The research type in regard to its goal is applied and in regard to data collection method is survey research. A questionnaire has been used to collect data. Population of this research covered all graduate students of West Azerbaijan province universities in the academic year 1392-1393 (n=9352, according to available statistics) among them 132 students were selected randomly as research sample through multi stage cluster sampling. To test the research hypotheses, Pearson correlation, multiple regression and path analysis technique have been employed. Empirical findings indicate that independent variables including socio-economic status, social capital and cultural capital affect academic success of students in pursuing higher education.</p>