Turkey Poverty Policy Recommendations, Volume 2

This report sets out a new poverty line methodology for Turkey, as the basic measure of poverty in the country. However, several poverty lines are calculated for the purpose of international comparability, and comparability to the Bank's poverty measures, using the 1987 and 1994 data. The basic...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Poverty Assessment
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESSION COUNTRIES AGED AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT ANNUAL RATE BASIC EDUCATION CAPITAL ACCOUNTS CAPITAL FLOWS CAPITAL INFLOWS CASH TRANSFERS CHILD HEALTH SERVICES CLINICS COUNTRY INEQUALITY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DISADVANTAGED AREAS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORM EDUCATION LEVEL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYMENT STATUS ENROLLMENT RATIO ESCAPE POVERTY EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATE REGIME EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT EXTREME POVERTY FAMILIES FINANCIAL MARKETS FINANCIAL SECTOR FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD GOODS FOOD POVERTY FOREIGN EXCHANGE GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH PERFORMANCE HEALTH CARE HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH POLICY HEALTH SERVICES HIGH GROWTH HIGH INFLATION HOSPITAL ADMISSION HOSPITALIZATION HOSPITALS HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD POVERTY HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD WEALTH HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SECTOR UNIT INCOME INCOME COUNTRIES INCOME GROUPS INCOME HOUSEHOLDS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME QUINTILE INCREASED TRANSPARENCY INEQUALITY INFECTIOUS DISEASES INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS INTERVENTION LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET LIVING STANDARDS LONG RUN LOW- INCOME COUNTRIES MACROECONOMIC FRAMEWORK MACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY MACROECONOMIC POLICY MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MARKET ECONOMIES MORTALITY MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OUTPATIENT CARE PENSION SYSTEM POLICY REFORMS POOR POOR CHILDREN POOR HEALTH POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY GAP POVERTY INCREASES POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY MONITORING POVERTY OUTCOMES POVERTY POLICY POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY PROJECTIONS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY SITUATION POVERTY STATUS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PRO-POOR PUBLIC EDUCATION PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH CARE PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM PUBLIC SPENDING PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITATIVE DATA QUALITATIVE INFORMATION QUANTITATIVE DATA REAL TERMS REFORM PROGRAM REGIONAL DIMENSIONS REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE RESOURCE ALLOCATION RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL POPULATION RURAL POVERTY SCHOOL GRADUATES SCHOOLING ATTAINMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS SERVICE DELIVERY SKEWED DISTRIBUTION SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL PROTECTION PROGRAMS SOCIAL SECTORS SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL REFORMS TARGETING TAX REFORM TAX REGIME TEAM MEMBERS TEAM WORKING UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS URBAN POPULATION VULNERABLE GROUPS WORKERS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/08/6310170/turkey-joint-poverty-assessment-report-vol-2-2-poverty-policy-recommendations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8702

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Summary:	This report sets out a new poverty line methodology for Turkey, as the basic measure of poverty in the country. However, several poverty lines are calculated for the purpose of international comparability, and comparability to the Bank's poverty measures, using the 1987 and 1994 data. The basic data used in Volume One are from the official 2002 Household Budget Survey (HBS). The analysis refers generally to the new poverty line methodology that results in 27 percent poor. This line is called "complete" poverty line, and is referred to as "Total poverty" in statistical tables. An in-depth analysis of the 2002 Household Budget Survey (HBS) compared to that from 1994, shows that living standards in Turkey remained almost unchanged. Poverty based on the previous methodology declined gradually from 1987 to 2002, from 38.5 percent to 34.5 percent. Poverty based on the updated methodology declined from 28.3 percent to 27 percent from 1994 to 2002. On the other hand, marginal inequality increased. Extreme poverty, already low, further declined from 1994 to 2002. Food poverty declined from 2.9 to 1.4 percent, while $1 per person per day poverty, depending on purchasing power parity (PPP) used, was 2-3 percent, or even negligible (0.2 percent). The poverty-growth decomposition demonstrated that while economic growth was a main driving force in poverty reduction, much of the gains from growth were offset by inequality, which slightly worsened from 1994 to 2002. The timing of the two major surveys in Turkey - 1994 and 2002 - dictates the frame for the comparisons. Unfortunately, due to the macroeconomic instability, living standards between these two years have not improved. The conclusion that stems from this analysis is therefore that growth between 1994 and 2002 was not sufficiently strong to produce any sizable reduction in poverty, and the impact of the little growth there was, was dampened by an increase in inequality.

Turkey Poverty Policy Recommendations, Volume 2

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