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Turkey and the IMF: Macroeconomic Policy, Patterns of Growth and Persistent Fragilities

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USD 8.00 Publisher: TWN
ISBN: 983-2729-54-8
Year: 2006
No. of pages: 100
Size of book: 14.5cm x 21.5cm
Author: Independent Social Scientists’ A
About the Book

The Independent Social Scientists’ Alliance was formed by a group of academicians and researchers in November 2000. The main aim of the Alliance is to provide academic resistance to counter the neo-liberal assault on Turkey’s economic and political independence and social welfare.

As imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the international financial institutions, the conditionalities of neo-liberal globalization aim at redesigning Turkey’s role in the international division of labour, with the explicit objective of turning its national economy into a free-market bonanza of cheap imports, a reserve army of cheap labour, and an informalised, dualistic industry with a backward technology base.

It is the main objective of the Alliance to provide research, training and scientific data to support the labouring masses in their struggle against the hegemony of capital and neo-liberal imperialism. This book is one of the major contributions of the Alliance towards that goal. 


Contents

Chapter

NOTE

FOREWORD by Ajit Singh

FOREWORD by Lance Taylor

1 INTRODUCTION

2 TURKEY IN THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR

World Division of Labour and Turkey

Turkey in Pre-accession Negotiations with the EU

3 THE TURKISH ECONOMY UNDER THE AKP GOVERNMENT:

MACROECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FRAGILITIES

General Observations

Economic Data for 2004

Sources of Growth

Fixed Capital Investments

Jobless Growth

Trends in Wage-Productivity Relationship

Turkey Keeps Offering High Arbitrage Returns to International Financial Markets

Current Account Deficit Gives Alarming Signs

Growth Process Made Dependent on International Finance Capital

Autonomy of the Central Bank and Inflation Targeting

Dynamics of Public Debt

Consolidated Budget 2004

4 THE TRUE CHARACTER OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMMES

Reform in Public Administration

Programme for Transformation in the Health Sector

2004: Year of New Projects in the Health Sector

Public Health Problems Turkey is Facing as This Transformation is Imposed


5 CONCLUSION: ON THE NATURE OF THE IMF PROGRAMME

ANNEX

Economic Developments in the US, the Dominant Power in World Capitalism

POSTSCRIPT

The Turkish Macroeconomy in 2005

ENDNOTES

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