Improving the Quality and Equity of Basic Education in Turkey: Challenges and Options (2011)
Providing education for all has been a core objective of many governments since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals a decade ago. Improving educational attainment alone is not enough, however. |Â Read MoreÂ
Opportunities for Men and Women: Emerging Europe and Central Asia (2011)
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have a long history of striving for gender equality, especially in the public sphere. |Â Read MoreÂ
Railway Reform in South East Europe and Turkey: On the Right Track? (2011)
The railways of South East Europe and Turkey experienced significant declines in traffic volumes in 2009. This reflected the impact of the international financial crisis unleashed in the last quarter of 2008 and its contractionary impact on the economies of the region and elsewhere. | Read MoreÂ
Skills, Not Just Diplomas: Managing Education for Results in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (2011)
This book seeks to answer the following questions: Why do the Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) firms increasingly complain that they cannot find graduates with the right skills? What can ECA countries do to close the skills gap? | Read MoreÂ
Igniting Innovation: Rethinking the Role of Government in Emerging Europe and Central Asia (2011)
The book analyzes four aspects of the innovation system: international collaboration, research and development institutions, government financial support instruments, and the investment climate. | Read MoreÂ
The Jobs Crisis. Household and Government Responses to the Great Recession in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (2011)
The effects of the 2009 global financial crisis were more acutely felt in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region than in any other region in the world. In a short period of time, property values plummeted, the value of retirement accounts shrank, household savings evaporated, and general consumer and producer confidence disappeared. | Read More
Tapping the Potential for Energy Savings in Turkey (2011)
Increasing energy efficiency (EE) is a priority for Turkey. It will help Turkey achieve energy supply security, sustain growth, protect the environment, and mitigate climate change. Improving EE is also important in the process of Turkey‘s accession to full European Union (EU) membership and its participation in the development of the next iteration of the Kyoto Protocol. | ReportÂ
Risky Business? HIV Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior among At-Risk Mobile Workers in Turkey (2010)
Turkey remains a very low HIV prevalence country, but the number of HIV/AIDS cases has been increasing in recent years. | Read More
Other Reports
Turkey Investment Climate Assessment: From Crisis to Private Sector Led Growth (2010) This Investment Climate Assessment draws on the analysis of firm-level survey data collected during April 2008-January 2009, supplemented by other sources, to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the investment climate facing Turkish firms of all size classes, including the impact of government regulations and recent reforms.
Informality: Causes,Consequences, Policies (2010) Informality in Turkey is part of people's daily lives, according to a World Bank report entitled 'Informality: Causes,Consequences, Policies'. Two perceptions are widespread. First, everybody else is doing it: evading taxes and underreporting wages.
Turkey: Expanding Opportunities for the Next Generation- A report on Life Chances (2010) Turkish children have vastly different odds of success in life and too often suchchances are decided by factors they have no control over, such as how wealthy oreducated their parents are. Opportunities tend to be passed from one generationto the next. So investing in children and youth will give them the skills to escapethat cycle.
Watershed Management Approaches, Policies, and Operations:Lessons for Scaling Up (2010) After three decades of experience of watershed management, it is timely to takestock of what has been learned and to draw out pointers that can help define futuredevelopment paths. This report has therefore been prepared as a contribution toa process of stocktaking and looking forward.
Confronting 'Death on Wheels': Making RoadsSafe in ECA (2009) A combination of weak road safety management capacity, deteriorated roads, unsafevehicles, poor driver behavior, and patchy enforcement of road safety laws, alongsideexponential growth in the number of vehicles, have contributed to road traffic injuriesand fatalities multiplying at a rapid pace.
Running a Business in Turkey - (2009) New data from Enterprise Surveys indicate that firms in Turkey operate at leastas well as the average EU-10 firm in terms of external finance and trade.
OECD/World Bank Review of the Turkish Health System (2008) The health status of the Turkish population has improved significantly over the past few decades, accompanying improvements in the scale and functioning of the health-care system.
Turkey: Gas Sector Strategy - (2007) The purpose of this note is to assist policymakers by proposing a pragmatic andflexible program of change which will enable Turkey to develop a modernized gasmarket structure.
Turkey - Public Expenditure Review - (2006) This report focuses on Turkey's ambitious fiscal adjustment which has facilitateda substantial decline in the public debt ratio together with a strong economic performancesince 2001.
Turkey: Education Sector Study (2006) The Education Sector Study seeks to contribute to the current dialogue among researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders regarding the creation of a coherent, sector-wide strategy for improving Turkey’s pre-university education system.
Turkey Agricultural Sector Subsidization - (2004) In 2000, the Turkish government started a thorough realignment of agricultural supportpolicies. This report reviews the impact of subsidy reform in the agricultural sector.
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