Every year, after the budget bill is submitted to Parliament (Majlis), numerous reports on the status of various sections of the country's budget are published in expert and media circles. One of the important sections that requires attention is the country's cultural budget. Culture, as one of Iran's essential and foundational pillars, plays a vital role in social development and national identity. Nevertheless, compiling and preparing a comprehensive statistical report on the budget allocated to the culture sector and other related sectors has always been an important and necessary concern.
Namafar's Policy Research and Data Analysis Group, from the very start of its work, has examined the status of culture and especially the cultural and creative industries in Iran from various dimensions by preparing numerous statistical reports. One of the key issues in this area is the matter of "financing" of the culture sector. Since culture has always been supported by the ruling establishment and governments, and a major part of its appropriations depends on government financing, this group has placed a precise study of the nationwide Budget Law on its agenda, with the aim of examining the quantity and quality of appropriations for various cultural sections.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian