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The abstract for paper number 347:
Ayse Gedik, Prof. Dr. Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi (Middle East Technical University), Ankara, Turkey, Sibel Toybiyik, Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi (Middle East Technical University), Ankara, Turkey
The Impact of South East Anatolia Project on the Inter-regional Inequalities in Turkey
Regional economic and social disparities appear as a problem in Turkey as in other developing and developed countries. Therefore, "regional inequality" is an important issue in economic and political agenda of the countries and some "regional development plans" are made in order to reduce these regional inequalities. The most important of those regional plans in Turkey is the "South East Anatolia Project (SEAP)", prepared for one of the least developed regions of Turkey.
The aim of this study is to examine the impact of SEAP on the inter-regional inequality between SEAP region and the other regions and on the intra-regional inequality in the SEAP region in terms of socio-demographic and economic factors. The time period between 1990 and 2000 is taken into consideration, so that the changes in the inequalities before, during, and after SEAP are compared and analyzed. Not only the economic variables (eg., GDP p.c., electric consumption, etc.) but also the socio-demographic variables are included in the analyses. Therefore, this study is a comprehensive evaluation, and the results provide current information about the success of the SEAP.
In this study, Theil's index is used as it provides the property of additive decomposability, which allows us to analyze the magnitudes and trens in inequality among regions as well as within regions.
Unfortunately full paper has not been submitted.