Abstract:

This study aims to separate comprehensive development from comprehensive growth, especially growth, poverty-friendly growth, and to focus on rural infrastructure and to study the Turkish economy. The research framework of the work that the public’s rural infrastructure investments in the economy of Turkey made between 1967 and 2018 provides comprehensive development or not. Since the series of the variables of the study does not allow the appropriate co-integration analysis to be stagnated at the same level, the Toda-Yamamoto causality test was conducted, which could investigate the cause without considering the stagnation levels in the series. According to this test, the only variable that affects the GDP growth rate per person was the total number of health institutions. Other independent variables do not affect the GDP growth rate per person representing development. On the contrary, the GDP growth rate per person affects the total number of health institutions and the total length of the village road. There is no mutual relationship between the total number of schools and the dependent variable. That is, the increase in the number of schools is not the cause of comprehensive development in Turkey. In addition, it is possible to ensure comprehensive development in Turkey only with health institutions investments. The comprehensive development is not applicable to the Turkish economy with the variables addressed.

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