TEPAV: "Turkey’s Sovereign Rating Cannot be Upgraded Easily " TEPAV stated that Turkey strongly needs a new economic program to enjoy an improvement in sovereign rating beyond the level enabled by the success following the 2001 crisis.
09/01/2011- 2059
ANKARA- TEPAV answered the long-debated question why Turkey's sovereign rating is not upgraded and emphasized that the problem stems from a number of factors including current account deficit, and volatility of growth and of exchange rate. Stressin
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Growth, Current Account Deficit, Fiscal Discipline, Global Financial Crisis,
TEPAV: "One Third of the Economic Recovery Completed…" TEPAV stated that Turkey achieved an impressive growth performance whereas the recovery process in unemployment and exports could not be completed yet.
04/01/2011- 1731
ANKARA- TEPAV examined the performance of Turkey's economy in 2010 relying on the key macroeconomic indicators. Production and consumption indicators for 2010 indicated that the economy has regained the pace before the crisis whereas unemployment
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Global Financial Crisis, Growth, Exports, Current Account Deficit, Unemployment,
Positive Trend in Retail Confidence Continues Along with a Seasonal Drop TEPE, which dropped to the negative zone in October for the first time since August 2010, continued to decrease but rose year-on-year by 10.3 points.
04/01/2011- 1638
ANKARA- TEPE, which dropped to the negative zone in October for the first time since August 2010, continued to decrease. TEPE stood at -8.9 in December 2010. TEPE showed 6.2 points of month-on-month decrease and 10.3 points of year-on-year increase
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TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator (TEPE) , Retailing Sector,
Istanbul will connect Europe to China Delivering a speech in the opening ceremony of training program for Egyptian Competition Authority, TEPAV Director Sak underlined that such steps turn into long-lasting dialogue mechanisms and that Istanbul-Islamabad railway project will be initiated with Pakistan.
03/01/2011- 2298
ANKARA - TEPAV Director Prof. Guven Sak stated that a couple of weeks ago they received a proposal from Mr. Zerdari, President of Pakistan, regarding the construction of Istanbul - Islamabad railway and that TEPAV and TOBB will involve in this pr
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Competition, Middle East, TRIPP,
Training for Egyptian Competition Authority TEPAV, in cooperation with Turkish Competition Authority, will deliver five-day training for Egyptian Competition Authority officials.
31/12/2010- 2338
ANKARA - Turkish Competition Authority and TEPAV will deliver training for Egyptian Competition Authority officials on 3-7 January 2011 in Ankara. Trainings to be delivered by the Turkish Competition Authority will involve a wide spectrum of topi
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TRIPP, Competition,
Evaluation Note / Sarp Kalkan Short term fund inflows are harmful for banks
30/12/2010- 2037
The monetary easing followed by the central banks in developed countries, FED to begin with, elevated short term fund flows towards developing countries including Turkey. Since the primary channel of entry for fund flows is the banking sector,
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Financial Markets, Stability, Global Financial Crisis, Current Account Deficit,
Government Budget Patched Through the Unemployment Fund The amount of transfers to budget from the Unemployment Fund reached 8.6 billion TL over the 2008-2010 October.
24/12/2010- 2803
ANKARA- Non-budgetary revenues, privatization revenues and unemployment fund revenues predominant among them, contributed substantially to the recovery in the budget balance. The amount of transfers to budget only from the Unemployment Fund reac
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Fiscal Monitoring , Stability Institute, Stability, Budget Performance, Unemployment Insurance Fund,
Prof. Rodrik of Harvard University: ‘Keep an Eye on the Manufacturing Industry and Services Sector for Sustaining Structural Transformation’ Watch video Dani Rodrik, commenting on Turkey's economy underlined that rate at which manufacturing is expanding employment has slowed down and many of the services that are growing are not as productive.
22/12/2010- 2980
ANKARA - Prof. Dani Rodrik of Harvard University stated that it will be important for rapid, productivity-enhancing structural change to be sustained in order for Turkey to maintain its high rate of economic growth. Rodrik maintained that this m
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Economic Transformation, Growth, Merih Celasun Memorial Day, Structural Transformation, Productivity,
Evaluation Note / Nilgün Arısan Eralp Another EU Summit in Vain for Turkey
20/12/2010- 2483
EU leaders have endorsed the decisions of the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) taken on 14 December 2010 regarding Turkey. Frankly speaking, neither the EU Summit on 16-17 December 2010, nor the preceding meeting of GAERC had
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EU - Turkey Relations, EU Accession, Cyprus,
TEPAV: "Higher Education Board Harms the Economy" TEPAV's research identified that the lack of autonomy across universities in Turkey affected innovation performance adversely.
14/12/2010- 2359
ANKARA-TEPAV research aiming to shed light on the correlation between the higher education system in Turkey and competitiveness identified that the lack of autonomy across universities in Turkey affected innovation performance adversely.
TEPAV pol
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Education , Innovation, R&D, Economic Development, Competitiveness,
