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Survival Strategies Under Structural Adjustment In Rural Turkey


            
             Although, the stability process of the new financial program collapsed with the December 2001 crisis, new reforms continued to oppress Turkish agriculture. This oppression created an overwhelming pressure on the shoulders of small-scale agricultural producers. (Almost 99% of Turkish rural population) Consequently new survival strategies are adopted by the depressed population. My main aim in this study is to figure out the social effects of new reform program and to determine the most commonly used strategies and their social effects in the general composition of country. .
             THE MACRO ECONOMIC TRENDS AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT.
             Especially in the last decade a vast number of publications were done on the subject of increasing dependence in the world; changing the name from globalization to mc-donaldization, new-colonization or financial integration. However, whichever term is used, there is a social fact, by which the local markets in the world are integrating to one single capitalist market. The most crucial actors ruling this change are IMF (International Money Found) and WB (World Bank) .
             After 1970's these international institutions embarked on giving long-term credits to create the required integration. The countries in debt crises mainly used these credits, with the condition that they would carry out packet programs, which is called as stability or with more popular terms; structural adjustment. (Özkan, 99: p.92) Where as the Neo-Marxist schools regard this main trend as neo-colonialism, the Neo-Liberalists take it granted for the improvement of capitalist production and wealth accumulation. .
             The main motive of these almost unchanging programs is the reduction of state expenditures and dis-solvement of state enterprises for the creation of independent market. Beside the reduction of costs, the structural adjustment programs try to create new sources for the economy with the decrease in imports and increase in the exports, which provides a real trade surplus and which is crucial for enabling the country for loan repayments.


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