GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS STRUCTURE OF TURKISH ECONOMY

Year 2015, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 0 - 0, 26.06.2015

Yavuz Turguter

Abstract

Global competition conditions are sharpening and turning into more complex structure in the world economy. Under the highly competitive conditions, Turkish economy needs to increase her competitiveness against the closest competitors. In this context, main aim of this study is to investigate the competitiveness structure of Turkish economy by considering The Global Competitiveness Report of World Economic Forum. Main result of the study is that Turkish economy has to increase her competitiveness structure especially in the fields of export capacity, the institutional quality and efficiency, labor market efficiency, national savings, educational quality, innovation capacity

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