Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Turkey’s economic recovery from COVID-19: Preparing for the long haul

Turkey’s economic recovery from COVID-19: Preparing for the long haul Auguste Tano Kouamé and Habib RabTuesday, November 17, 2020 Turkey, like the rest of the world, has been deeply impacted by COVID-19. This one-in-a-hundred-year crisis that has touched the populations of 216 countries, landed in Turkey in early March 2020. It jolted the Turkish economy just as it was starting to stabilize from a mid-2018 bout of turbulence. The question now is what should be the appropriate policy mix as the economy tries to navigate the COVID-19 shock and recover from the doldrum it has been in over the past couple of years? More:Turkey’s economic recovery from COVID-19: Preparing for the long haul