Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Master student of Information Science and Knowledge, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

With the end of the Second World War, a general effort has been made among various thinkers to understand the development process. Meanwhile, governance as a new concept in the development literature has attracted attention. Good governance has characteristics that can lead to economic development. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to investigate governance and economic development in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The research hypothesis is that the improvement of governance indicators can have significant effects on the development of development indicators such as higher per capita income, higher life expectancy, higher level of health, the development of information technology in society, general and specialized education. Have lower female fertility rates, lower child mortality rates, lower unemployment rates and increased social welfare. The theoretical model of this research is based on the theory of developmentalist government. The results of the research show that the improvement of governance indicators regardless of geographical location can have significant effects on the promotion of development indicators and thus increase social welfare, but by examining the studies, it can be said that according to the type Governance of Iran, the process of economic development of Iran in different periods after the revolution, has gone through different conditions and in each period of each of the indicators of governance have gone through a different situation.

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