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How ‘Sustainable’ Are Turkey’s Ratings?

  • Posted by Pelin Dilek
  • Posted on April 10, 2014
  • Macro Topics
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It has been almost a year since Turkey got an upgrade from a rating agency; but the last one-year has been also the most volatile period of the financial markets in Turkey since Lehman crisis.  Gezi protests, the last few months domestic political events as well as the  FED’s tapering have exerted pressure on the […]

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DataTurkey: Education

  • Posted by Pelin Dilek
  • Posted on December 9, 2013
  • Data&Charts
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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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