Keywords: Regional Development
Debate on "Sustainable Development Goals" at TEPAV Tenth Regional Development and Governance Symposium held
19/02/2016
ANKARA- The Tenth TEPAV Regional Development and Governance Symposium was held on February 19th in Ankara. This year’s symposium theme was "Decision Making within the Triangle of Society, Economy and Environment".
In his inaugural speech, TE
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Development Agencies Workshop Convened in Ankara TEPAV Director Sak: “Chambers seek to be more active in local development decisions”
16/09/2014
ANKARA – Development Agencies Workshop convened in Ankara with the participation of the Minister of Development Cevdet Yılmaz, TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, and heads of chambers and commodity exchanges of 81 provinces.
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TEPAV Director Sak: “Transport Corridors Necessary for Integration in the Mediterranean” Sak stated that the share of MENA countries in Turkey’s exports increased from 17.8 percent in 2007 to 35.3 percent in 2012.
11/06/2013
WASHINGTON – TEPAV Director Güven Sak pointed at the need to improve transportation infrastructure for economic integration in the MENA region, the share of which in Turkey’s exports has been improving remarkably.
Sak attended the meeting
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TEPAV Director Sak: “Turkey Has Neglected Rural Development” The 7th Regional Development and Governance Symposium began with around 200 specialists and otherwise concerned attendees
13/12/2012
ANKARA – The 7th Regional Development and Governance Symposium TEPAV organized in cooperation with the Ankara University Center for Development Studies Research and Application (AKÇAM) on the Rural Development started on Thursday, 12 December 20
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The New Investment Incentive Package and the Other Turkey Commentary/Esen Çağlar
09/04/2012
"The new investment incentive package was announced at the beginning of April. According to the initial reflections in the media, everyone is quite content with it. I would be too, if I was an investor here. It seems that the incentive experts
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“Regional Competitiveness” Discussed during TEPAV's Annual Governance Symposium The 6th Annual Regional Development and Governance Symposium was held in Ankara.
02/12/2011
ANKARA – TEPAV hosted its sixth annual Regional Development and Governance Symposia on Friday, December 2, 2011, with the theme “regional competitiveness and governance.”
Delivering the opening speech of the symposium held at TEPAV, Gove
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Commentary/Esen Çağlar: How can fiberoptic cables reduce migration from the east to the west? TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar assessed the services sector-based development potential of Erzurum taking departure from Turkcell's research project that investigated the local economic impact of its call center in the city.
19/09/2011
Çağlar said:
"I do not know about politics, but technology definitely has the power to make dreams come true. Let’s say that you are in Istanbul and you want to order kebab from the restaurant two blocks away. You pick up the phone and a yo
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Commentary/Esen Çağlar: How should Istanbul grow: Via unearned rent or human capital? TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar stressed that, in the face of the ongoing debates about the Istanbul Channel Project, Turkey has to make a choice about its growth strategy as well as Istanbul's future.
02/05/2011
The commentary assessed:
"However, despite the wide gap between supply and demand and the ever-increasing difficulty of life, we must give Istanbul its due: if Turkey has grown over the last three decades, it has been enabled by this beautiful cit
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Commentary/Esen Çağlar: Turkey needs a new policy on Palestine TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar stated that Turkey's new policy on Palestine must focus on tthe acceleration of economic development, the state-building process, and the political reinforcement of the peace process.
16/02/2011
The commentary said: "Pursuing political issues not backed by the priorities of accelerating economic development and facilitating the state-building process in Palestine harms Turkey's soft power and its effectiveness in the Middle East. Turke
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The State’s Tools for Regional Development in Question The 5th Regional Development and Governance Symposium by TEPAV hosted debates on the special economic zones, clustering policy, regional development, and the efficiency of these as tools for regional development.
28/01/2011
ANKARA - The 5th Regional Development and Governance Symposium, with the theme "Governance of Industrial Policy," ended on Friday 28 January 2011 with discussions questioning the tools of the state to ensure regional development.
The second and
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