This webpage is dedicated to pay tribute to the memory of our dear friend, classmate and colleague, Afshin Jafari Mojdehi, who passed away on September, 10^th 2003 after three years of courageous battle with Leukemia. He was 29 years old. 

Afshin was a researcher and faculty member of IRPD (Institute for Research in Planning and Development) the pioneer center for research and graduate studies of economics in Iran. In IRPD he impressed senior faculty and graduate students with his passion and hard work. The students that attended Afshin’s classes enjoyed having an enthusiastic teacher willing to explore and discuss new horizons in economics theory and applications. In his short time as an economic researcher he participated in several research projects, which resulted in publishing a number of excellent reports and papers, his contribution to the quality of these articles was enormous. He was an extraordinary teacher and devoted researcher. 

Afshin came from a small green city in north of Iran. He graduated from Sharif University in Tehran in class of 1997 (1376). He continued his graduate studies in IRPD, where he was invited to stay after graduation.   He was a lovely young man, who in any occasion tried his best to make everybody around him happy, life was radiating from him. Decided not to share anything his illness with others, he didn’t mention it to anybody until his last weeks. So it became a shock for many to understand it later.  

Now here we are, his friends and colleagues in Iran and abroad, making a pledge to prolong his devotion to the development of economic studies in Iran, in naming an annually award for the best graduate student paper in the field of economics. We know if he were here among us, he would be the most industrious one to pursue this contest, something he would have longed to do. And he is doing it right now, because he inspired many of us in many ways to like economics. To see the details about the prize visit Afshin Jafaris's Prize Page.

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