مقايسه كارايي سرمايه گذاري در بخش هاي خصوصي و دولتي در ايران رويكردي براي خصوصي سازي

Comparing the Efficiency of Investments in Iranʹs Private and Governmental Sectors: An Approach to Privatization

Developed and Developing countries have remarkably pursued privatization policies during recent decades. The successes followed by performing this policy in developing countries, the collapse of totally concentrated and governmental economic systems and the polices of international economic agencies such as IMF and World Bank lead most countries particularly developing countries to persistently perform and follow this policy as a essential program of economic structure reforms. Although the results of performing this policy have been successful in most developed countries, the results of privatization in developing countries are not fully vivid and in some cases, there are many ambiguities regarding the success of this policy in such countries. Economic policy makers in Iran have began to pay attention to privatization in early 1980s and it was considered and followed in Iranʹs social, economic and cultural plans. This research paper firstly tries to survey issues related to privatization in Iranʹs governmental companies. Next, it compares the efficiency of investments made by private and governmental sectors within 1971-2001 by means of a growth model. The criterion for efficiency is final productivity of capital in both private and governmental sectors. Accordingly, if it is proved that the efficiency of private investments is more than that of governmental sector, one could