TÜRKİYE’DE BÖLGESEL GELİŞMİŞLİK FARKLARI: BİR VERİ ZARFLAMA ANALİZİ (DÜZEY-2 BÖLGELERİ)
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DISPARITIES IN TURKEY: A DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (LEVEL-2 REGIONS)

Summary/Abstract: Aim of this study is to investigate to what extend the level-2 regions (NUTS-2) could respectively benefit from scale economies and could use their resources efficiently, hence how close they could create value added with respect to their potentials in Turkey by implementing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In this respect, through impacts of along with aggregate employment, employment by main sectors, human capital, public infrastructure investments, entrepreneurship, innovations, technology levels and exports on per capita gross value added, the economic performances of the level-2 regions are evaluated. In general six regions respectively could not benefit from scale economies adequately and could use their considered inputs (particularly innovations) inefficiently. On the other hand, promoting innovations, employment, entrepreneurship, public infrastructure and technology level is an initial issue for the rapid development of six least developed regions that could use their inputs efficiently. On the other hand, innovations and public infrastructure have positive impact only on development of the poorest regions when also the linear regression estimates are considered.

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