Industrialization Policies in Turkey 1980-2000 Period

Authors : Haluk İşler

Pages : 1-14

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Publication Date : 2024-05-31

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :Abstract In the 1970s, with the blockage of the Fordist production method and “the import substitution accumulation regime”, most of the capitalist economies in the world fell into economic crisis, and efforts to overcome this crisis brought neoliberal policies to the agenda under the name of globalization. In Turkey, which was affected by the crisis of Fordism and the globalization trend, a series of economic stability and structural adjustment decisions were taken on January 24, 1980, envisaging an emphasis on market mechanisms and export-based-outward-open development strategies. In the 1980s, Turkey began to adopt policies, to open the economy to world markets and foreign capital, to facilitate the entry of foreign goods into the domestic market, to accelerate privatization policies and to integrate small-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into large enterprises. These policies inevitably had great effects on industrialization policies in Turkey. In this study, the dynamics of neoliberalism and the outlines of the process it follows along with globalization in the world were revealed and the effects of this process on the economy and industrialization policies in Turkey were examined. In this regard, economic and industrialization policies in Turkey, specifically for the 1980-2000 period, have been discussed under the following headings: Transition dynamics to the 1980s in the world and in Turkey, basic economic policies, technology policies, research and development (R&D) policies, investment and production policies, small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) policies.
Keywords : Sanayileşme, Küreselleşme, Neoliberalizm, KOBİ