SHAPING THE FUTURE: ECONOMIC VISION AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF QATAR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 2030

Abstract

Qatar is experiencing significant development as a result of its abundant natural resources. Qatar is taking crucial initiatives to ensure the sustainability of this position, such as the Qatar National Development Strategy 2030. This strategy paper focuses a variety of development issues, including economic diversification, education reform, sustainable urbanisation, transportation infrastructure strengthening, and environmental sustainability. It also seeks to safeguard liberties, promote moral and religious values, and provide security, stability, and equality of opportunity. The goal of this research is to thoroughly investigate the content of the Qatar National Development Strategy 2030, assess its development, and analyse the country's success in reaching the targets outlined in the existing plan. The analysis covers the period from the plan's implementation in 2008 to the present. The study's drawback is the lack of a complete data set to measure all of the pillars of the strategy document simultaneously. In this context, data sets that are commonly used in the literature to measure the dimensions of "human development," "social development," "economic development," and "environmental development" were used. The analysis revealed that, while Qatar has made progress towards the QNV 2030 goals, there are still problems and areas that require improvement.

Keywords

• Qatar
• “Vision 2030”
• Development
• Sustainability
• Political Economy.

ŞEKİLLENDİRİLEN GELECEK: KATAR ULUSAL KALKINMA STRATEJİSİ 2030'UN EKONOMİK VİZYONU VE KAZANIMLARI

Abstract

Katar, doğal kaynaklarının zenginliği sayesinde hızlı bir kalkınma süreci içerisinde bulunmaktadır. Bu durumun sürdürülebilirliği için ise Katar Ulusal Kalkınma Stratejisi 2030 gibi önemli adımlar atmaktadır. Bu strateji belgesi, ekonomik çeşitlendirme, eğitim reformu, sürdürülebilir şehircilik, ulaşım altyapısının güçlendirilmesi ile çevresel sürdürülebilirlik gibi kalkınmanın çeşitli yönlerine odaklanmaktadır. Ayrıca özgürlüklerin korunması, ahlaki ve dini değerlerin teşvik edilmesi, güvenlik, istikrar ve fırsat eşitliğinin garanti altına alınmasını hedeflemektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Katar Ulusal Kalkınma Stratejisi 2030'un içeriğini detaylı bir şekilde irdelemek, ilerleme sürecini değerlendirmek ve ülkenin mevcut plan ile ortaya konulan hedeflere ulaşma noktasındaki performansını analiz etmektir. Araştırma, planın uygulamaya konulduğu 2008’den günümüze kadar geçen süreci ele almaktadır. Çalışmanın sınırlılığını Strateji Belgesinde yer alan temel sacayaklarındaki bütün unsurları bir arada ölçecek kapsamlı bir veri setinin bulunmaması oluşturmaktadır. Bu kapsamda "Beşerî Kalkınma", "Sosyal Kalkınma", "Ekonomik Kalkınma" ve "Çevresel Kalkınma" parametrelerini ölçebileceği düşünülen ve literatürde sıklıkla kullanılan veri setlerinden yararlanılmıştır. Analiz, Katar'ın QNV 2030 hedeflerine yönelik ilerleme kaydetmiş olmasına rağmen hala sorunlar ve iyileştirilmesi gereken alanlar olduğunu ortaya koymuştur.

Keywords

• Katar
• “Vizyon 2030”
• Kalkınma
• Sürdürülebilirlik
• Ekonomi Politik

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