Challenges and opportunities in the pathway of development: Case of Turkey

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About the editors

H. Isıl Alkan is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ondokuz Mayıs University. She has teaching and research experience in the area of economic policy, world economy, labour economics, agricultural economics and gender economics. She has several manuscripts, conference papers and book chapters in the stated fields.

Kübra Önder is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. She has teaching and research experience in economic theory, microeconomics, industrial economics, agricultural economics, time series and panel data analysis. She has several manuscripts, conference papers and book chapters in the stated fields.

About the book

H. Isıl Alkan and Kübra Önder (eds)

Challenges and opportunities in the pathway of
development: Case of Turkey

The globalization process offers countries the opportunity to integrate with world economies. Turkish economy has undergone significant structural transformation since the 1980s and experienced intense global developments in this complex period. Turkey, having strengths and weaknesses, is also faced with many threats and opportunities in the mentioned process. Therefore, a correct analysis of the opportunities and threats can move the country to a better point in the development road.

This book focuses threats and opportunities in the pathway of Turkey’s development. In this framework, working poverty, external debt problem, early deindustrialization, 1980 transformation of the economy, households’ demand for healthcare, instruments of fiscal policy, case of Syrian business, decent work and gender equality, economic and fiscal impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey are examined.

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List of contributors

Hatice Işıl Alkan

The dimensions of working poverty in the world and in Turkey

Demet Özmen Yılmaz

Early deindustrialization: An evaluation of Turkey

Koray R. Yılmaz

1980 transformation of the Turkish economy: Capital accumulation process, crisis, and changing integration

A. Öznur Ümit

Examining the external debt problem of Turkey for the period from 2001 to 2019

Büşra Akın and Kübra Önder

Multinomial logit model analysis of medical institutions choices of households in Turkey

Muhammet Şahin

The economic and fiscal impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey and around the world

Düriye Toprak

Instruments of fiscal policy applied in Turkey for the finance of development