Güven Sak, PhD
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The revolution is good for Egypt’s grocers
It is thanks to the Tahrir revolutionaries that the ballot box has finally come to Egypt. I was in Cairo this week and met with many different people during my three-day…
The Tahrir Square looked much smaller this time
We all have learned the hard way that the number of Tahrir Square residents was quite small compared to Egypt's of 82 million. Last night I passed by Tahrir Square in…
How to define a more Southern G-20 agenda
The G-20’s focus on current events like the global economic crisis is understandable. That should not however, come at the expense of neglecting structural issues.…
Can Turkey fly via entrepreneurship?
Given that Turkey performs poorly on the human development index, there is still great progress to be made. The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey and…
The ban on abortion increases crime rate
What came as a surprise was that the legalization of abortion in the US with the decision of the Supreme Court in 1973 played a considerable role in the drop in crime…
The Zero Problems policy is alive and kicking
Until the day the economic awakening starts to keep pace with the political awakening, Turkey needs a zero problems framework. Some say that the zero problems policy…
Indecisive Europe is causing Switzerland to lose its faith
The Swiss are disturbed by Europe’s efforts to deal with the crisis via liquidity injections. Go figure: Switzerland is becoming just like China! No, not because the…
Will the adjustment cost for the TCC go beyond 6 billion?
Turkey increases the public disclosure burden on small enterprises while the U.S. does the opposite. The lower the cost of adjustment to a law is, the more smoothly that…
Why can’t Turks speak English yet?
Diplomats are good at making comparisons to the past, especially if they are posted to the same place multiple times. I was recently talking to a foreign diplomat in…
What is the deal with the number 49?
Some companies in France are making keen efforts not to employ one more person to increase the number of employees to 50. According to a recent story in Bloomberg…
The institutionalization of sycophancy
Lately, I have become convinced that it would be useful to form the legislation and execution via separate elections. I was born in the first half of the 1960s. Süleyman…
Why should the EU play a role in Turkey?
The EU would have a unique role in completing Turkey’s transformation process. The EU was once the major driving force of Turkey’s transformation process. That was a…