financial institutions, the conditionalities
of neo-liberal globalization aim at redesigning
Turkey’s role in the international division
of labour, with the explicit objective of turning
its national economy into a free-market bonanza
of cheap imports, a reserve army of cheap labour,
and an informalised, dualistic industry with
a backward technology base.
It is the main objective of the Alliance to
provide research, training and scientific data
to support the labouring masses in their struggle
against the hegemony of capital and neo-liberal
imperialism. This book is one of the major contributions
of the Alliance towards that goal.
Contents
Chapter
NOTE
FOREWORD by Ajit
Singh
FOREWORD by Lance
Taylor
1 INTRODUCTION
2 TURKEY IN THE
NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR
- World Division of Labour and Turkey
- Turkey in Pre-accession Negotiations with
the EU
3 THE
TURKISH ECONOMY UNDER THE AKP GOVERNMENT: MACROECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AND FRAGILITIES
- General Observations
- Economic Data for 2004
- Sources of Growth
- Fixed Capital Investments
- Jobless Growth
- Trends in Wage-Productivity Relationship
- Turkey Keeps Offering High Arbitrage Returns
to International Financial Markets
- Current Account Deficit Gives Alarming
Signs
- Growth Process Made Dependent on International
Finance Capital
- Autonomy of the Central Bank and Inflation
Targeting
- Dynamics of Public Debt
- Consolidated Budget 2004
4 THE TRUE CHARACTER OF STRUCTURAL
ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMMES
- Reform in Public Administration
- Programme for Transformation in the Health
Sector
- 2004: Year of New Projects in the Health
Sector
- Public Health Problems Turkey is Facing
as This Transformation is Imposed
5 CONCLUSION: ON THE NATURE
OF THE IMF PROGRAMME
ANNEX
- Economic Developments in the US, the Dominant
Power in World Capitalism
POSTSCRIPT
- The Turkish Macroeconomy in 2005
ENDNOTES
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