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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…
Unemployment resistant again
Before the global crisis, unemployment rate had stuck at 10.3 percent. Now unemployment rate stuck at a level 1 point lower. Labor force statistics for March were…
Iran, Turkey and the Kurds
As has been foreseen, the attacks of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have begun to increase with the coming of summer. We are receiving a lot of conflict…
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…
Turkey’s stance on the civil war in Syria
Day by day, the clashes in Syria have been spreading to a larger area and getting more and more frequent. The government is losing control in some places and the number…
An exploration into new monetary policy
The study stresses that the CBT does not have at its disposal appropriate tools to fulfill the objectives assumed in the late 2010 with the new monetary policy…
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…
A valuable discussion
Here is the main question: how can the CBT implement a monetary policy that targets price stability and financial stability at the same time. The June 2012 issue of the…
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…