Abstract:

We have been seeing that there is new regional development approach put into practice in our country related to National Programme of Turkey for the Adoption of the EU Acquis which conceptual framework was established during 8. Five Year Development Plan and it have been applying through 9. Five Year Development Plan. Under concept of the new regional development approach like Nomenclature of Territorial Units (NUTS), Development Agencies (DA) and establishment of new incentive system has been implemented. In this study, first we focused on a new regional development approach. Then 25 regional development agencies that operate in our country were analyzed by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The Güney Marmara Development Agency excluded from the analysis because of the budget appropriation didn't stipulate for 2010. As a result of the data envelopment analysis, first three ranks are respectively like that İstanbul Development Agency, Trakya Development Agencies, and Zafer Development Agency

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