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From Demographic Transition to Fertility Boom and Bust: Iran in the 1980s and 1990s (2006)
Journal Article
Hakimian, H. (2006). From Demographic Transition to Fertility Boom and Bust: Iran in the 1980s and 1990s. Development and Change, 37(3), 571-597. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0012-155X.2006.00491.x

Although it is widely recognized that demographic transition is not an uninterrupted process, demographers and population economists have treated short‐term swings in fertility with a measure of curiosity. Iran's experience of population growth after... Read More about From Demographic Transition to Fertility Boom and Bust: Iran in the 1980s and 1990s.

Review of Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle East Response (London and New York, 2001) and idem, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (London and New York, 2003). (2004)
Journal Article
Waghmar, B. (2004). Review of Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle East Response (London and New York, 2001) and idem, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (London and New York, 2003). Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32(2), 347-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298030320020603

Water Scarcity and Food Imports: An Empirical Investigation of the “Virtual Water” Hypothesis in the MENA Region (2003)
Journal Article
Hakimian, H. (2003). Water Scarcity and Food Imports: An Empirical Investigation of the “Virtual Water” Hypothesis in the MENA Region. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 1(1), 71-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475368032000061653

Despite the long tradition established by the Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) theorem and copious literature on the so-called Leontief Paradox, economists have not methodically linked the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's well-known water-scarcity p... Read More about Water Scarcity and Food Imports: An Empirical Investigation of the “Virtual Water” Hypothesis in the MENA Region.

The Impact of the 1970s’ Oil Boom on Iranian Agriculture (1988)
Journal Article
Hakimian, H. (1988). The Impact of the 1970s’ Oil Boom on Iranian Agriculture. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 15(2), 218-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066158808438358

This article challenges the dominant strand of thinking on Iranian agriculture, which has hitherto stressed the depressing effects of the 1970s' oil boom on the rural economy. In highlighting the nature of the economic boom both in the rural and urba... Read More about The Impact of the 1970s’ Oil Boom on Iranian Agriculture.