. At the village level, a land market does not influence the poverty outcome of the reform but reduces its inequality …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …

findings have important implications on the future development strategy in promoting lagging regions development and poverty … reduction. While the overall economic development will be the main instrument to bring the majority poor out of poverty, a …