Ekonomik Özgürlük Yoksullukla Mücadelede Etkili mi?

Year 2020, Volume: 9 Issue: 17, 146 - 151, 30.06.2020

Cüneyt Koyuncu , Hüseyin Safa Ünal

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı 1995-2015 arasındaki dönemde ekonomik özgürlük ve yoksulluk arasındaki ilişkiyi bulmaktır. Bu amaçla sabit etkiler modeli (FEM) ve tesadüfi etkiler modeli (REM) kullanılmaktadır. Modelin spesifikasyonuna karar vermek için Hausman test sonuçları kullanılmıştır. İş ve ticaret özgürlükleri ekonomik özgürlüğe dahil edilmesine rağmen, her üç ölçüt de modellerde ekonomik özgürlüğün ayrı ayrı göstergesi olarak kullanılmaktadır. Analizler, ekonomik özgürlük ile yoksulluk arasında negatif bir ilişki olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Nüfus artışı yoksulluğu arttırır. Bir refah devleti olarak, hükümetin eğitim harcamalarını artırarak müdahil olması yoksulluğu azaltır. GSYH'nın ise yoksulluk üzerinde zayıf bir negatif etkisi vardır.

Keywords

Ekonomik Özgürlük, İş Özgürlüğü, Ticaret Özgürlüğü, Yoksulluk

Is Economic Freedom Effective on Poverty Alleviation?

Abstract

The aim of this study is to find the relationship between economic freedom and poverty for the period between 1995 and 2015. To this end, fixed effect models (FEM) and random effect models (REM) are put into use. Hausman test results are utilized to decide on the specification of the model. Although business and trade freedoms are included in the economic freedom, all three measures are used as the indicators of economic freedom separately in the models. Analyses revealed that there is a negative association between economic freedom and poverty. Population growth raises poverty. As a welfare state, government’s involvement by increasing expenditures on education lowers poverty. GDP, on the other hand, has a small negative effect on the poverty.

Keywords

Economic freedom, Business Freedom, Trade Freedom, Poverty

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