İLLER ARASI EKONOMİK BÜYÜME YAKINSAMASINA ETKİ EDEN FAKTÖRLER
Project no. 858 · Status: Kapanmış (Yayın bekleniyor) · 2018
Summary
Regional economic convergence is one of the main aims of economic and social policy in order to attain sustainable development. Neo-classical economic theories claim that the gap in income levels among different regions/countries eventually disappear under certain assumptions. However, the empirical findings in the literature do not confirm this hypothesis as regions show heterogenous structures. New growth theories claim that convergence is only valid among homogenous regions under certain conditions. In this study I analyse 81 provinces between 2004-2017 period in order to test the convergence hypothesis for Turkish provinces. According to our findings, the convergence hypothesis holds true for our sample. Furthermore we also find that foreign trade and female literacy are important factors for growth. Our results also fail to find significant impacts of government expenditures, crime and migration.