Shahid Beheshti University International Journal of New Political Economy 3060-6233 6 1 2025 05 01 Development of Digital Economy, Human Development Solution in Iran 47 82 105589 10.48308/jep.2025.237697.1196 EN Saeed Kian Poor Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran 0000-0002-4827-4970 Mohsen Hajian Department of Economics, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran 0000-0002-6897-1386 Journal Article 2024 12 11 Recent information and communication technology developments have led to digitizing society and countries . The increase in productivity and efficiency of these societies , together with digitization , has sparked the expectation that developing the digital economy in Iran will lead to human development . In this research , the digital economy index of 31 provinces of Iran was first ranked using Principal Component Analysis ( PCA ) . Then , they were placed in three clusters : Very Suitable , Suitable and Very Unsuitable . In the next step , Copula’s approach was applied to investigate the role of the digital economy in human development . The results showed a correlation between the human development of Iran's provinces and the digital economy development of Iran's provinces . Based on this , the development of digital economy in the provinces of Iran can be a way for human development . https://jep.sbu.ac.ir/article_105589_cd8587e572c5d818e46ae458508f8462.pdf