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- Title
Economic Development and Regional Inequalities: An Empirical Investigation for Turkey, 1965-2001.
- Authors
ÖZTÜRK, Lütfü
- Abstract
This paper examines relationship between economic development and regional inequality by considering geographical regions of Turkey. Willamson'(1965) Inverted-U Hypothesis which suggested an increasing-decreasing regional inequality in the course of national development has been tested using quadratic forms. National per capita income as a development indicator and regional income dispersion as a measure for interregional inequality among regions have been investigated in the course of national industrialization - from the middle of the 1960s to the end of the 1990s. Furthermore, intraregional inequalities have been investigated using similar methodology for the same period. Consequently, it has been observed that interregional inequality increases associated with economic development but decreases in the latter stages of development. According to panel data results, intraregional inequalities in some developed regions have also demonstrated the same trend in Turkey.
- Subjects
TURKEY; ECONOMIC development; EQUALITY; PER capita; INCOME; INDUSTRIALIZATION
- Publication
Paradoks: The Journal of Economics, Sociology & Politics, 2012, Vol 8, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
1305-7979
- Publication type
Article