Over the past decade, Turkey has experienced significant socioeconomic progress and demographic changes. The benefit of … Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs is maximized when the interventions are targeted to children from disadvantaged … families. This report examines the ECE provision in Turkey, and offers policy options for improving and expanding the ECE …

response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a …

"There have been important developments in the decentralization of the government structure in Turkey since the early …

"This is an empirical paper seeking to identify the mode of Turkey's integration into global markets in general, and … following observations. First, thanks to steady expansion of trade in goods and services since the mid-1980s, Turkey has become … highly integrated into the world economy. Second, Turkey's export performance in 1996-2004 in EU markets bears strong …

"This paper analyzes the effects of monetary policy and fiscal adjustment on output and unemployment in Turkey. The …