Turkey

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Senior budget official country reviews of budgeting systems

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09-Dec-2008

The objective of senior budget official country reviews is to provide a comprehensive overview of the budget process in the country under examination, to evaluate national experiences in the light of international best practice and to provide specific policy recommendations.

Economic Survey of Turkey 2008: Shifting to a pro-growth fiscal strategy

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17-Jul-2008

The gains of recent fiscal-institutional reforms and vigorous fiscal consolidation should be preserved, and credibility enhanced, in the wake of transition from IMF monitoring.

The Turkish Pension System: Further Reforms to Help Solve the Informality Problem (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 44)

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14-Dec-2006

Anne Marie Brook and Edward Whitehouse

This paper discusses a number of pension reforms in Turkey that would increase the retirement age, reduce inter-generational inequities, and permit a significant cut in the tax wedge on labour, while better addressing old-age poverty concerns at all levels of income.

SIGMA documentation on Turkey

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22-Nov-2005

Created in 1992 and governed by Conventions between the EU and the OECD, the SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management) Programme provides support to partner countries in their efforts to modernise public governance systems.

Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level, 2005: Enabling Globalisation

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02-May-2005

This year’s OECD Ministerial Council Meeting will be held at OECD Headquarters on 3-4 May 2005 under the chairmanship of Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, with the overarching theme of “Enabling ...

Reforming Turkey's public expenditure management

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10-Feb-2005

Rauf Gönenç, Willi Leibfritz and Erdal Yilmaz

Fiscal consolidation, the cornerstone of macroeconomic stabilization after the 2000/2001 crisis was chiefly based on revenue increases. Greater emphasis is now needed on controlling expenditure, while core public services must be upgraded. Economics Department Working Paper 418.

Economic Survey - Turkey 2004: Improving the quality and cost-efficiency of public expenditure

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21-Oct-2004

What was behind the drift of public expenditures in the last decade? Are core public services and institutions now adequately funded? Will a new public expenditure management system improve the quality ...

SIGMA Programme

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14-Jan-2004

Website for the Sigma programme: Support for Improvement in Governance and Management. Sigma is a joint initiative of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European ...

Government Capacity to Assure High Quality Regulation in Turkey

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14-Nov-2002

This report on Government capacity to assure high quality regulation analyses the institutional set-up and use of policy instruments in Turkey. It also includes the country-specific policy recommendations ...

OECD Stresses Urgency of Regulatory Reform in Turkey for Sustained Economic Recovery

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14-Nov-2002

Regulatory reform is essential for the successful stabilisation of Turkey's economy. Backed by strong political leadership, it can provide the basis for a possible agenda for good governance and sustainable ...