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Winners and losers of rapid growth in Turkey: Analysis of the spatial variability of convergence
Author(s) -
Karahasan Burhan Can
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12496
Subject(s) - convergence (economics) , economic geography , equity (law) , turkish , geographically weighted regression , econometrics , economics , geography , economic growth , mathematics , political science , statistics , linguistics , philosophy , law
This paper investigates spatial variability of regional convergence for the 2004‐2017 period in Turkey. Results from neoclassical convergence model which are robust to inclusion of a spatial battery points out the existence of convergence. However, additional results highlight that regional convergence is spatially heterogeneous. While underdeveloped regions exhibit higher convergence, convergence speed is not distributed evenly among these underdeveloped eastern regions. These findings point out that, last epoch of Turkish transformation fails to have equity enhancing effects at local level, rather there are winners and losers of the rapid growth of 2000s.