Research Article

Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature

Volume: 22 Number: 2 December 30, 2018
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Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature

Abstract

Until a few decades ago poverty eradication did not feature prominently in the public policy making and discourse of contemporary Turkey. Successive governments engaged and responded marginally to issues of poverty. However, after the post-1980s reorientation of the development pattern of the nation, from centralised protectionist paradigm to free markets systems, poverty eradication gradually started to find space in national public policy agenda, rapidly rising into one of the key national policy issues. Political authority readily acknowledged poverty as a major problem and assumed responsibility for its eradication. Based on desktop review of literature, this article explores the shift in poverty eradication policy agenda of Turkey from a quiescent and neglected phenomenon to an important public policy issue. The article argues that external induced reforms (adoption and implementation of neoliberal policies and measures, reforms to achieve good governance) and internal social structural transformation (erosion in traditional welfare regime) account for the government’s increased role in issues of poverty eradication in Turkey. 

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 30, 2018

Submission Date

September 22, 2018

Acceptance Date

November 12, 2018

Published in Issue

Year 2018 Volume: 22 Number: 2

APA
Wuripe, A. (2018). Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature. Çukurova Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 22(2), 169-193. https://izlik.org/JA53RW74XW
AMA
1.Wuripe A. Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature. JCUFEAS. 2018;22(2):169-193. https://izlik.org/JA53RW74XW
Chicago
Wuripe, Alhassan. 2018. “Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature”. Çukurova Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi 22 (2): 169-93. https://izlik.org/JA53RW74XW.
EndNote
Wuripe A (December 30, 2018) Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature. Çukurova Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi 22 2 169–193.
IEEE
[1]A. Wuripe, “Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature”, JCUFEAS, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 169–193, Dec. 2018, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA53RW74XW
ISNAD
Wuripe, Alhassan. “Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature”. Çukurova Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi 22/2 (December 30, 2018): 169-193. https://izlik.org/JA53RW74XW.
JAMA
1.Wuripe A. Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature. JCUFEAS. 2018;22:169–193.
MLA
Wuripe, Alhassan. “Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature”. Çukurova Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 22, no. 2, Dec. 2018, pp. 169-93, https://izlik.org/JA53RW74XW.
Vancouver
1.Alhassan Wuripe. Dynamics of Government’s Role in Poverty Eradication in Turkey: A Study of the Literature. JCUFEAS [Internet]. 2018 Dec. 30;22(2):169-93. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA53RW74XW