The Contemporary Turkish Economy

The Contemporary Turkish Economy

Z. Y. Hershlag

Routledge

Turkey, a strategically important country, a member of NATO, and currently an applicant to join the EEC, has an interesting economy which provides a good example of a developing country struggling to improve its economic performance by means of Five Year Plans, export growth strategies, anti-inflation policies and monetary and fiscal policies, with modest success. This book presents a detailed analysis of the Turkish economy and its current difficulties and argues that Turkey is in fact a country with considerable economic potential which is at present much underutilised. By analysing the problems and by assessing recent policies designed to cope with them the author suggests how economic strategies and thereby economic performance might be improved.
Z.Y. Hershlag is Professor of Economics of Development and Former Director of the David Horowitz Research Institute for the Developing Countries at Tel-Aviv University.