De facto Devletler ve Dış Yardım Bağımlılığı: Türkiye Yardımlarının Kuzey Kıbrıs Ekonomisi Üzerindeki Etkisinin Analizi

Year 2021, Volume: 18 Issue: 72, 51 - 71, 20.12.2021

Ahmet Özyiğit Fehiman Eminer

https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.1011811

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Dış yardım literatürü genellikle dış yardımın etkinliğini kişi başına düşen milli geliri artırma kapasitesi olarak
nitelendirir. Halbuki, dış yardımın etkinliğini sadece gelir artışı olarak düşünmek hem gelirin nasıl arttığını hem
de nasıl dağıldığını göz ardı eder. Bu perspektif aynı zamanda dış yardımın sürdürülebirliği ve uzun vadede
yardıma bağlı ekonomilerin kendi kendilerine yetebilecek noktaya gelebilme potansiyellerini de sorgulamaz.
Bu makalede Kuzey Kıbrıs’a yapılan yardımın etkinliği hem geleneksel yardım-büyüme bağlamında, hem de de
facto devlet-patron ilişkisi çerçevesinde politik ve ekonomik bağımlılık çerçevesinden değerlendirilmektedir.
Türkiye’nin maddi yardımlarının yerel tüketim, dış ticaret ve bütçe harcamaları üzerindeki etkilerine bakıldığı
zaman, yardımın kalkınma amaçlı kullanılmaktan ziyade, bütçe açığı kapatmak gibi geçici tampon amacı ile
kullanıldığına dair bulgulara rastlanmaktadır. Bu durum, bağımlılığı daha da arttırmakta ve de facto-patron
ilişkisini kronikleştirmektedir.

Keywords

Dış Yardım, Koşulluluk, Yardım-Büyüme Hipotezi, ARDL Bounds Testi

De-facto States and Aid Dependence: An Analysis of the Impact of Turkish Aid on the Economy of Northern Cyprus

Abstract

Aid-growth literature often looks at per capita income growth as a measure of aid effectiveness. However,
perceiving effectiveness merely as per capita income growth tends to disregard how income is generated or
distributed. It also fails to address crucial long-run sustainability issues such as the likelihood of the recipients to
manage on their own in the absence of such financial assistance. In this article, aid effectiveness in North Cyprus
is analyzed both from a traditional aid-growth nexus as well as an aid-dependence perspective with a focus on
the unique de-facto state-and-patron relationship, which places additional emphasis on aid-conditionality and
aid-dependence. Looking at the impact of aid on consumption, trade, and government expenditure patterns, we
can see evidence for aid being used as a deficit-financing tool, perpetuating the chronicity of the aid-dependent
relationship rather than financing future growth and development prospects.

Keywords

Foreign Aid, Aid Effectiveness, Conditionality, Aid-Growth Hypothesis, ARDL Bounds Test

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