Economist and Political Scientist Timur Kuran to Deliver the Merih Celasun Memorial Lecture The 3rd Merih Celasun Memorial Day event will host students and friends of Celasun including prominent academics.
20/05/2013- 61
ANKARA – TEPAV has been organizing Memorial Day events in commemoration of Professor Merih Celasun, who offered critical solutions for Turkey’s economic problems with his studies on economic policy driven by scientific thought. The second event of
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Merih Celasun Memorial Day, Turkish Economy,
Turkey’s Industry: Carry on with the Pipes and Drums or Time for the Symphony? The recent transformation of and the prospects for the Turkish industry was deliberated during a meeting at TEPAV.
10/05/2013- 60
ANKARA - TEPAV and the World Bank jointly organized a meeting titled “Industrial Policy in the World and in Turkey” on Friday, 10 May 2013. At the meeting, which raised the need for Turkey to switch to high-tech sophisticated industrial producti
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Industry, Industrial Policy, Labor Market Policies, Female Labor Force Participation, Demographics,
TEPAV: “Turkey’s Retail Sector Surpasses Europe at a Historic Rate” With a value of 3.6, TEPE increased by 4.3 points month-on-month and by 9.8 points year-on-year in April 2013.
03/05/2013- 117
ANKARA - In April 2013, TEPE increased both year-on-year and month-on-month, and achieved the highest level of the last 16 months. Expectations for the level of sales in the next three months recorded the 26-month highest. Retail confidence decr
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TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator (TEPE) , Retailing Sector,
Turkey 100 Looks for Turkey’s Fastest Growing Companies The winning companies will network and build business relationships with global companies.
03/05/2013- 306
ANKARA – TEPAV, under the leadership of TOBB and AllWorld Network, has initiated the Turkey 100 Project with the aim to bring global attention to the fastest growth companies of Turkey.
The project now accepts applications from fast-growth non-lis
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Growth, Private Sector, Entrepreneurship ,
Why is Turkey an Odd Country? | Esen Çağlar It is odd to invest in real estate and apartment blocks instead of in education.
17/04/2013- 305
"Our country’s agenda gets so odd at times that one inevitably wonders if such things happen in other places as well. Are we one of a kind? Is there any other country that has suffered from terrorism and high inflation for 30 years? Do they s
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Economic Development, Urbanization, Democracy, Education ,
New Indices from TEPAV TEPAV now releases indices on underemployment, the length of job search for unemployed, and labor market tightness.
16/04/2013- 63
ANKARA - TEPAV, in order to better monitor and present the labor market trends, have revised the content of its Employment Monitoring Bulletins.
In addition to the previous content, the Bulletins will report new labor market indicators generate
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Employment Statistics, Employment,
Expectations in the Retail Sector Blossom alongside Spring With a value of minus 2 in March 2013, TEPE increased by 2 points month-on-month.
02/04/2013- 210
ANKARA – In March 2013, TEPE increased month-on-month but was stagnant compared to the same period in 2012. Expectations for the level of business activities compared to the previous three months and the year before, as well as those for orders,
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TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator (TEPE) , Retailing Sector,
TOBB President Calls WTO Director Lamy to Assure Confidence TEPAV’s guest Lamy shared the agenda of the upcoming 9th Ministerial Conference of the WTO, to be held in Ankara, and listened to the audience’s expectations from the conference.
15/03/2013- 146
ANKARA / ISTANBUL – Pascal Lamy, Director General, World Trade Organization (WTO), was hosted by TEPAV during his first official visit to Turkey before the Ministerial Conference scheduled in December. At the meeting, TOBB President M. Rifat His
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World Trade Organization, Trade, Private Sector, Custom Union, Free Trade Agreements,
No Recovery in Retail Confidence in February TEPE decreased month-on-month by 1.2 points and year-on-year by 2.5 points.
04/03/2013- 153
ANKARA – In February 2013, TEPE decreased month-on-month and year-on-year. Expectations for orders, sales and sales prices in the next three months also decreased compared to the previous month and year. The volume of business activities compared t
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TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator (TEPE) , Retailing Sector,
Insured Employment Drops by 325,000 Month-on-Month The SSI reported that the number of insured employees was 11,744,000 in October 2012.
22/02/2013- 180
ANKARA – The number of insured paid employees decreased by 325,000 to 11,744,000 in October 2012.
The fifteenth issue of the TEPAV Employment Monitoring Bulletin reports that the number of insured paid employees reached 11,744,000 with an incre
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Employment, Employment Statistics,
