Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Marmara Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İktisat (İngilizce) Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2020
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: MERVE KAYA
Danışman: Fatma Doğruel
Özet:
ABSTRACT
Structural change and technological catch-up are the key transformations
necessary for economic development. How different are structural change and
technological catch up processes of the countries that performed fast transitions to high
income category and of the countries undergoing slow transitions? The analysis is based
on the structural modernisation index developed by Lavopa & Szirmai (2018) as a
measure of a sector’s relative productivity weighted by its size in the economy. It
illustrates average achievement of a sector in the two dimensions of structural
transformation. Taking into account the middle income trap literature, the modified
structural modernisation index values are calculated for manufacturing and technology
intensive sectors which are important for development of middle income countries. The
successful countries (the countries that performed fast transitions) are diverged from the
failed countries (the countries undergoing slow transitions) in medium & medium-high
tech manufacturing index values. The failed countries could not sufficiently improve at
least one of the transformations. Therefore, the findings of this study supports the
literature emphasizing the importance of domestic innovation, moving up to value chain,
and fostering structural change towards sectors with advanced technological contents. It
also agrees with the idea that the countries must expand the share of high-tech sectors in
the economy and decrease technology gap simultaneously. Improving only one of them
is not sufficient to be successful in the way of becoming a high income country.
Furthermore, the findings signal an early deindustrialization in some of the failed
countries.