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High-Quality Versus Low-Quality Growth in Turkey: Causes and Consequences

In: TURKISH ECONOMY AT THE CROSSROADS Facing the Challenges Ahead

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  • Daron Acemoğlu
  • E. Murat Üçer

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The following sections are included:IntroductionHigh-Quality Growth: A Conceptual FrameworkThe Quality of Recent Turkish GrowthThe Institutional Foundations of Low-Quality GrowthThe Way ForwardReferences

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  • Daron Acemoğlu & E. Murat Üçer, 2020. "High-Quality Versus Low-Quality Growth in Turkey: Causes and Consequences," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Asaf Savaş Akat & Seyfettin Gürsel (ed.), TURKISH ECONOMY AT THE CROSSROADS Facing the Challenges Ahead, chapter 3, pages 37-89, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Turkish Economy; Emerging Markets; Capital Flows; Macroeconomic Imbalances; Chronic Inflation; External Deficits; Sudden Stops; Financial Liberalization; Fiscal Stabilization; Middle Income Trap; Productivity-Led Growth; Inclusive Growth; Structural Transformation; Labor Market; Female Employment; Turkey–EU; Populism;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O2 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy
    • N15 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Asia including Middle East

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