Kültürün rolüne dair yeni bir paradigma, kültürün, sürdürülebilir kalkınmayı mümkün kılmak veya ekonomik başarı elde etmek üzere bireyler ve toplumlar için zengin bir varlık olduğudur. Kültür, pek çok kanal aracılığıyla, ekonomik performansa ve kalkınmaya önemli...

Implementation of structural adjustment policies in Developing Countries (DCs) signifies a rupture from the development, modernisation and industrialisation policies which were under state’s control, contrary to the industrialised states’ experiences. Even though the intensity and extension...

Turkish Abstract: Özet: Bu sunum için Bela Balassa tarafından hazırlanan bir makale esas alınmıştır. Çalışmanın ana fikri gelişmekte olan ülkelerin, ihracatı artırmak ve daha iyi bir büyüme hızı elde edebilmek icin izledikleri ticaret politikalarıdır. Çesitli bölümler,...

Economic integration theory suggests that each member benefits from establishing a customs union; because the country that has relatively lower income will grow faster than the others, income and growth rates of all member countries will be equalised in the long-run. However, endogenous growth...

Ortadoğu, hem dinlerin kesişme noktası olması hem de petrol zenginliği nedeniyle yıllar boyunca egemenlik mücadelelerine sahne olmuş ve bu nedenle de istikrarsızlaşmış bir bölgedir. Petrolün 20.yüzyılda enerji kaynağı olarak kömürün yerini alması nedeniyle, bölge tüm...

The Lisbon Treaty entered into force on December 1, 2009, marking a new level of EU’s initiatives on institutional change and policy reforms in 2000’s. The purpose of this study is to provide an outline of the changes in the institutional structure of EU with the Lisbon Treaty, considering...

There has been witnessed a great transformation in the world trade over the last three decades. One of the main developments in this transformation is called “new regionalism phenomenon” that distinguish from earlier regionalism. The aim of this paper is to review the major elements of new...

On the 18th and 19th of June 2012, the leaders of the G20 countries will meet in Los Cabos, Mexico, to discuss a variety of current and long-term problems contained in the agenda of 2012 which was determined with respect to the objectives and conclusions of the previous summits. In this study,...

The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of the Customs Union (CU) and Free Trade Agreements (FTA) on the extensive and intensive margins. For this purpose, first, Turkey’s export data set composing HS-6 digit product level statistics for period 1996 to 2011 with 172 countries has...

The present paper examines the effects of the Customs Union (CU) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on Turkey's extensive and intensive margins. For this purpose, using highly disaggregated product-level data at the six-digit product level of Harmonized System, we first decompose Turkey's export...