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Interview with Gudarzi, Manuchehr

Date

July, 1983

Location

Washington, D.C.

Interviewer

Nikzat, Behruz

Language

Persian

Abstract

Family and educational background; activities of the Plan and Budget Organization; formation and functions of the High Council for Administrative Affairs; Amini and Alam premierships; on Prime Minister Mansur and his Progressive Circle; politics of selecting cabinet ministers; on cabinet politics; workings of the civil service; drawing up new laws and legislations for the civil service; on the Shah’s reaction to opponents of the civil service bill; on public administration education in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s; agricultural productivity and price policy; problems of the agricultural sector; urban development in Iran; on the development of the public sector; reminiscences of Iranian premiers from Ali Amini to Amir Abbas Hoveyda; recollections of Princess Ashraf; joining the private sector.

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Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11

Part 12

Transcripts

Manouchehr-Goodarzi-APt-I Manouchehr-Goodarzi-BPt-II Manouchehr-Goodarzi-CPt-III_0 Manouchehr-Goodarzi-English

Contents

147pp. + summary + biographical note + index + photograph

About the interviewee

Gudarzi, Manuchehr

Professor at Princeton and Tehran Universities; Deputy Director of Plan and Budget Organization, 1960-1962; Minister of State for Administration and Employment, 1963-1967; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Agricutural Products and consumer Affairs, 1968-1973; Managing Director of Arj Industrial Corporation, 1973-1979.