Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Country Economic Memorandum
Keywords:
Economic Crisis
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Finance and Financial Sector Development
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Financial Crisis Management and Restructuring
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Fiscal Adjustment
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Fiscal and Monetary Policy
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Fiscal Framework
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Global Value Chains
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Global Value Chains and Business Clustering
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Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
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Private Sector Development
Abstract:
Turkey saw phenomenal growth in the 2000s as economic reforms ushered in FDI, GVCs expanded, and productivity increased. The early 2000s saw Turkey exit from major economic crisis with a strengthened fiscal framework, a strengthened, inflation-targeting mandate for the Central Bank, the establishment of an independent bank regulator, and importantly, a recently agreed Customs Union agreement with the EU. From 2001 to 2017, incomes per capita in Turkey doubled in real terms and tripled in current dollar terms. Turkey transformed from a lower-middle-income country (LMIC) at the start of the 2000s to very nearly reaching high-income status by 2014. This drove a rapid fall in poverty from above 30 percent to just 9 percent1. Very few other countries matched Turkey's growth over this period, and almost all of them were new EU member states
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