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Import Substitution Potentials And Marketing Policies For Forest Products In Iran, M. A. Salimi-Manshadi

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Consumption data for different forest products were calculated for nine years (1962 to 1970). Then, taking consumption as a function of per capita disposable income and population, mathematical models were developed. By regressing per capita consumption of each product on per capita disposable income and determining the corresponding coefficients, the per capita demand for the products in the target years was calculated. The total projected demand was then computed by the products of per capita consumption and population in the target years.

Through regression analysis the future import of forest products was projected, and import substitution possibilities were discussed.

Finally, …