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- Turkey
- Capital: Ankara
- GCI Rank: 63 What's This?
Developed for the World Economic Forum by Professor Xavier Sala-i-Martin, the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) measures the competitiveness of nations using economic statistics and extensive polling of international business leaders.
FEATURED STORIES
Turkey
Istanbul's Economic Tension
A lawsuit threatens to undo the pro-Islamic government's record of reform and growth
FROM THE REGION
Buying Muslim
Firms are discovering that halal isn't a religious constraint--it's a consumer lifestyle
DOING BUSINESS IN TURKEY
Problematic Factors
- Access to financing
- Restrictive labor regulations
- Foreign currency regulations
- Inadequate supply of infrastructure
- Inefficient government bureaucracy
- Inadequately educated workforce
- Poor work ethic in national labor force
- Policy instability
- Government instability/coups
- Crime and theft
- Corruption
- Tax regulations
- Tax rates
- Inflation
- 0 10 20 30
- Percent of responses
Note: From a list of 14 factors, respondents were asked to select the five most problematic factors for doing business in their country/economy and to rank them between 1(most problematic) and 5. The bars in the figure show the responses weighted according to their ranking.