Evaluation of development plans of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the perspective of representation and application of Welfare and social justice Theories (With emphasis on the Fifth Development Plan)

One of the necessary preconditions to provide people's active participation in performance of development plans and the most basic of preparation to pave the way for the successful implementation of the plan is selection of appropriate theory in the field of justice and welfare for this plans.
In this research, while reviewing development plans of the Islamic Republic of Iran, because the Fifth Development Plan is an extract of all previous plans in terms of justice and improvement of life quality, this plan by using content analysis technique, from aspect the application of the concepts of justice and social welfare is analyzed and evaluated. Also according to the achievement of development plans and using the global and domestic data, Iran's position in the world in terms of welfare indicator of Sen, the Human Development Index (HDI) and the Legatum Prosperity Index is assessed.
This study shows although there are harmonies between sections of development plans and justice theory or theorical implications of social justice field, evaluation of welfare policies in development plans and specifically the Fifth development plan shows that there is not thought-out and targeted attitude about providing welfare justice in country public scale.
Attention to environmental, positional and capability-based attitude of Amartya Sen and multidimensional attitude of Waltzer can restore lack of social justice theory of written, coherent and executable in Iranian-Islamic theories field.