Abstract:

With the acceleration of technological developments and the globalization process, there has been a serious increase in the world trade volume. The increase in world trade volume has also increased the economic competition between countries. In order to provide economic competiton superiority for themselves, it is important for countries to use the sources effectively and efficiently for the determined purposes and to have their economical performance measured at certain times. The aim of this study is examining the macroeconomic performance of Turkey in years between 2010-2020 considering determined macroeconomic criterions. In the study; GDP growth rate, GDP per capita, ratio of exports to imports, foreign direct investment inflow, interest rate, inflation rate (PPI increase rate) and unemployment rate are considered as criterions so as to measure macroeconomic performance. In addition CRITIC (Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) based ARAS (Additive Ration Assessment) method has been used to measure. Beside this, the CRITIC method for weighthing the determined macroeconomic performance and the ARAS method for evaluating macroeconomic performance of Turkey in determined years have been used. It is thought that this study will contribute to the literature, since no study has been found in which CRITIC and ARAS methods are used integrated in the measurement of macroeconomic performance. The order of importance of the criteria according to the analysis results; ratio of exports to imports, GDP growth rate, foreign direct investment inflow, inflation rate, interest rate, unemployment rate and GDP per capita were determined. It was determined that Turkey showed the best macroeconomic performance in 2012 and 2012 was followed by 2015 and 2013, respectively. It was determined that the worst performance was in 2020.

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