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Data Turkey: Institutional Quality

  • Posted by Pelin Dilek
  • Posted on September 22, 2014
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Does Institutional Quality Support Further Income Increase in Turkey? Institutions are often regarded as one of the ingredients of competitiveness and/or growth rate in economic development.  The discussion on the role of institutions in ‘the origins of power, prosperity and poverty’ got popular attention through Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson’s book, ‘Why Nations Fail’.  The […]

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DataTurkey: Entrepreneurship

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  • Posted on January 9, 2014
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Entrepreneurial Environment When talking about Turkey’s strengths, it is almost imperative that economists talk about the entrepreneurial spirit. It is widely believed that this entrepreneurial spirit helps Turkey to go through hard and volatile times. Yet, these talks barely pass beyond anecdotal evidence. In this post of DataTurkey, we look at international data to question […]

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DataTurkey: Education

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  • Posted on December 9, 2013
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OECD announced the 2012 results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) last week and it was widely covered both in local and international media.  PISA is an assessment measuring the 15-year old school pupils’ scholastic performance on mathematics, science and reading and it is increasingly used as an indicator of education quality. Inspired […]

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DataTurkey: Sustainability

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  • Posted on November 13, 2013
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Sustainable Competitiveness* Under the DataTurkey series in LongViewTurkey, we have been posting comparative data of 14 emerging economies (and one developed).  The aim was to focus on long-term development issues of Turkey that the financial markets tend to overlook, in line with the mission statement of the platform.  In addition to governance and gender gap […]

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DataTurkey: Gender Gap

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  • Posted on October 28, 2013
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Inspired by the recently published WEF Gender Gap Report 2013, we have brought together Turkey’s data on gender equality compared to the 14 other emerging markets that we follow. As stated in the report, closing gender gaps is thus not only a matter of human rights and equity; it is also one of efficiency. Especially […]

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DataTurkey: Governance

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  • Posted on October 23, 2013
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Governance indicators aim to reflect the capabilities and gaps of national governments in formulating and implementing sound policies.  Indices listed here from World Bank’s ‘WorldWide Governance Report’ and KPMG’s Change for Readiness 2013. World Bank’s ‘Worldwide Governance indicators report six broad dimensions of governance for 215 countries.  According to the definition given by World Bank, […]

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Data Turkey: Energy

  • Posted by Pelin Dilek
  • Posted on October 22, 2013
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(Post edited on December 11 with WEF data on EAPI) World Economic Forum released ‘the Global Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) Report 2014’ on December 11th.  The report introduces EAPI, which focuses on tracking specific and output-oriented indicators to measure the energy system of different countries. 18 indicators are aggregated into three baskets: Economic growth […]

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Turkey Forecast Revision – October 2013

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  • Posted on October 3, 2013
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Revisions: * Despite the financial market volatility in 3q13, we are keeping 2013 GDP forecast at 4.1% as private consumption is rebounding faster than expected; but due to QE tapering, 2014 growth forecast is revised downwards… * TL forecasts are revised downwards both for 2013 and 2014 * Due to TL weakness in 3q13, we […]

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Updated Forecasts and Numbers After 4q12 GDP Numbers

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  • Posted on April 1, 2013
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