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Sustainable Development Goals and Turkey’s Middle Income Trap

  • Posted by Pelin Dilek
  • Posted on October 4, 2015
  • Sustainable Development
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United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals that are replacing Millennium Development Goals, were publicized over the UN Summit in New York last weekend.  These announcements were important for many working in the development field as they are going to determine domestic and international policies shaping many projects in the field.  Yet, the attention that they received […]

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Leverage Points in Turkish Economy

  • Posted by Pelin Dilek
  • Posted on December 2, 2014
  • Sustainable Development
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Last week as I was preparing a speech on Turkish economy, I was reviewing the facts for ‘Turkish macroeconomic story’.  Suddenly I realized that I was putting way too much effort into making my version of the story flow.  With the conventional way of looking into Turkey’s investment case, I should have listed the risks […]

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Turkey’s Monetary Policy from a Comparative Macroeconomic Data Perspective

Usually, in LongViewTurkey we tend to avoid writing on regular data releases unless they have a long-lasting impact on the economy. MPC decisions by the Central Bank of Turkey is also something that we do not write on a regular basis, because we have been observing that lately discussing CBT’s policies has diminishing returns: Harder […]

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DataTurkey: Gender Gap

  • Posted by Pelin Dilek
  • Posted on October 28, 2013
  • Data&Charts
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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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Turkey Investment Case: How to Keep it Intact?

  • Posted by Pelin Dilek
  • Posted on September 13, 2013
  • Macro Topics
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Soon after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the first reaction that the emerging markets got was not pretty.  Even though crisis originated in the US markets, rest of the world including emerging markets was largely hit.  Yet, despite all the volatility in 2008 and 1H2009, what the markets call the decoupling […]

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