Poverty in Turkey has declined significantly between 2003 and 2006, as a result of rapid poverty reduction in urban areas. In the same time period, the reduction in poverty in rural areas has been slow or non-existent. As a result, the relative risk of poverty has increased in this time period...

The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data limitations. This paper proposes two alternative approaches to circumventing the missing data problems in countries where a demographic and health survey and an ancillary...

The article explores the recent events in Turkey in May-June 2013 through the lens of the ruling party AKP's social and distributional policies over time. While the AKP's early years in government (2002-2008) were marked with pro-poor growth in urban areas and improved access to social services,...