Loewendahl, Henry ; Ertugal-Loewendahl, Ebru: Turkey's Performance In Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: Implications of EU Enlargement. Istanbul, 2001 ; Halle (Saale) : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2001
Content
2.3.1. Competitor FDI locations8
2.3.2. Performance in attracting FDI 9
3.3.Turkey’s competitive position17
3.3.1 Attractiveness to multinational corporations17
3.3.2. Key location advantages for market seeking FDI18
3.3.3. Key location advantages for efficiency seeking FDI20
3.3.4. Key location advantages for asset seeking FDI22
3.3.5. FDI enabling environment23
3.3.6. Political-institutional environment25
4.3.1.The impact of the CEECs joining the EU before Turkey31
4.3.2. The impact of Turkey not being a member of the Single Market32
1.Introduction
2.Turkey’s Foreign Direct Investment Performance
2.1.Introduction
2.2.Turkey’s FDI performance over time
Agriculture & Mining
Manufacturing
Services
Agriculture & MiningManufacturing of which:Food & BeverageTobaccoTextiles & garmentsChemicalsPlasticsCementIron and SteelElectrical machinery ElectronicsAutomotiveAuto side industriesServicesof which:TradeHotelsCommunicationFinancial servicesInvestment f
2.3.Turkey’s performance relative to competitor l
2.3.1. Competitor FDI locations
2.3.2. Performance in attracting FDI
Table 5: The role of FDI in the key regions of the world
WorldDeveloped countriesDeveloping countriesAfricaLatin America and CaribbeanDeveloping EuropeAsia and the PacificWest AsiaCentral AsiaSouth, East and South-East AsiaPacificCentral and Eastern EuropeHungaryCzech RepublicPolandTurkey
In terms of per capita FDI, which takes into account population size as a determinant of FDI (Bende-Nabende, 1999), Turkey has also performed worse than almost every region in the world and far worse than its key competitors. By 1996, Hungary had attra
Table 8: Mobile investment projects announced in first half 2000*
Location
3.Explaining Turkey’s performance
Table 9: Strategic and project determinants of country attractiveness for FDI
Table 10: Rank of Turkey and key competitors as a location for market, efficiency and asset seeking FDI (% of total respondents)
Table 11: Attractiveness of countries as seen by European and US firms
Table 12: The Market size of Turkey and 11 other countries in 1998
Table 14: Labour costs and productivity in manufacturing, 1990-94, US$ per year*
Table 15: Benchmarking the quality of labour in Turkey (rank out of 47 countries)*
Table 16: Engineering and science indicators, 1987-97
Table 19: Institutional environment (ranking out of 47 countries)
Table 20: Turkey’s location advantages for FDI
4.The IMF Agreement and EU Enlargement
4.1.Introduction
4.2.The IMF agreement
4.3.EU enlargement
4.3.1. The impact of the CEECs joining the EU before Turkey
4.3.2. The impact of Turkey not being a member of the Single Market
4.4.Conclusion and policy recommendations
Table 21: Policy recommendations for increasing FDI in Turkey
World Bank Privatisation Database http://www.worldbank.org/ecspf/final/html/priv-tran.htm