Türkiye ve Güney Kore’nin Kalkınma Performansı: Ampirik Bir Değerlendirme

In this study, it has been aimed to evaluate the economic development performances of Turkish and Korean economies in historical perspective. In 1960’s, in terms of many developmental indicators, South Korea, which lagged behind Turkey, achieved a brilliant development performance as a result of the economic policies that was applied in 1960’s and the following years, and consequently, Korea decreased the gap between developed countries the high investment rates as a result of high saving rates had a central function in the fast development process of Korea. A well trained, hardworking, and self disciplined productive power has been the other element completing the brilliant developmental adventure. Although Turkish economy has had an important progress beginning from 1960’s it hasn’t been able to reach at the capacity to produce its own technology yet, and consequently, Turkey depends on foreign technology. Nowadays. in terms of the basic developmental indicators -rates of growth, investments of fixed capital, saving ratios, indicators of science and technology, human capital, etc.-, Korea demonstrates a more brilliant performance than Turkey, although these performances were better for Turkey compared to Kore’s in 1960s