Turkey: Selected Issues

December 26, 2019

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Turkey: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed July 18, 2025

Summary

This Selected Issues paper on Turkey assesses the role of structural reforms in enhancing productivity growth in advanced and emerging economies and discusses results that are relevant for Turkey. The paper investigates the role of structural reforms in boosting productivity growth and describes the stochastic frontier set-up for analyzing factors that affect output through technical efficiency; and subsequently presents empirical results. It also simulates productivity gains from closing the structural reform gaps between Turkey and its benchmark. Structural reforms to improve hiring and firing regulations, the business and regulatory environment, and skills are found to have the largest estimated long-term productivity gains for Turkey. In order to bolster Turkey’s sustainable medium-term growth prospects, structural reforms should be implemented sooner rather than later, and any possible negative reform impacts in the short run could be limited by a reform sequencing and reform complementarities.

Subject: Commodity markets, Competition, Financial markets, Labor, Labor market flexibility, Macrostructural analysis, Production, Structural reforms, Total factor productivity

Keywords: B. technical efficiency, Center, Commodity markets, Competition, CR, Eastern Europe, IMF staff, ISCR, Labor market flexibility, Pay-productivity alignment, Policy prioritization, Product market efficiency, Production function, Productivity gain, Structural reforms, Total factor productivity

Publication Details

Pages:

18
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2019/396
Stock No:

1TUREA2019002
ISBN:

9781513524665
ISSN:

1934-7685

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