Publication: Leveraging Global Value Chains for growth in Turkey: A Turkey Country Economic Memorandum
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2022-03-02
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2022-03-08
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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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“World Bank. 2022. Leveraging Global Value Chains for growth in Turkey: A Turkey Country Economic Memorandum. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37095 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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