Turkey's recovery from its debt crisis ( 1978 - 80 ) has made it the paragon of export led growth. The driving force behind the Turkish export miracle has remained a matter of debate. If what happened in Turkey was a spillover of its proximity to the Middle East, there is little other countries...

The driving forces behind the Turkish export miracle, and in fact its very existence, have remained a matter of debate. The authors show there was a boom. As to contributing factor s, import growth in the Middle East in excess of import growth elsewher e made a negative contribution. On exports...

Against the backdrop of major changes in Turkey's development strategy and policy regimes, the paper provides an assessment of the aggregate performance of the non financial state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector, and examines the nature and process of reform initiatives during the decade of...