ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a technical discussion of the three planning models. They are: the macroeconometric model, the regional planning model and the optimal planning model. The regional planning model, developed by Farhad Noorbakhsh, makes use of fifty-five development indicators to measure the gaps in development among the twenty-three ostans of Iran. The model calculates the simple and composite distances of all ostans from the ideal ostan. The optimal planning model for Iran should take account of oil-resource utilization to arrive at the long-term extraction rate of this resource. The desirable rate of depleting exhaustible resources in general, and oil resources in particular, has for a long time been the subject of a significant volume of economics literature. Iran is attempting to devise its oil-extraction policy within a national planning framework in which it can relate this strategy to the economy's requirements of foreign exchange, on the one hand, and the national welfare, on the other.
