A new and extensive economic program has been initiated by the beginning of 2000 and this program has been in progress in Turkey, in order to decrease the inflation and to reassure the improvement medium in economic field in Turkey. In the contents of this economic program, besides the applications of a severe financial policy and the execution of extensive structural reforms, in order to descend the high inflation expectations rapidly, the exchange values are pre - determined according to the aimed inflation and expressed beforehand and the cash policy had been set to a spectrum in which the liquidity expansion is dependant on foreign resource inlet.
At the application of the program, important steps are taken in the field of structural reforms and to decrease or limit the public losses. At the coverage of the structural reforms, the social security system encountering major losses for long periods are rearranged and important steps were taken in order to obtain the balance between the actives and passives of the system. The first interference of direct income support system in the field of agriculture had been taken and the trials at the pilot areas were resulted in affirmative outcomes and the credit interest rates were determined according to the resource costs. By the foundation of Banking Supervision and Arrangement Association as a result of the reform in financial sector, it is planned and aimed to gather the activities of supervision, arrangement and surveillance of the banking sector under a sole authority. Regarding the privatization activities, 51 percent of the Petroleum Office sold as a block and 31.5 percent of TـPRAق was sold by the public submission in the year 2001. Besides, the income obtained from the cellular phone license sales were higher than expected.
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