ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to outline changes in the national income between 1960 and 1979 as well as its distribution in the national community. More important, the emigrants’ remittances had a dramatically beneficial effect on the balance of payments: this permitted a substantial increase in imports of machinery and raw materials, which in turn boosted the rate of industrial growth. Although, in general, income distribution tends to become more even as one moves up the scale of per capita GNP, it will be noticed that income distribution in Turkey is actually more lopsided than in some countries with lower per capita incomes, such as India and South Korea. Such observations may be of little comfort to the poor in any of these countries, but they help to demonstrate the world-wide scale of the problem of income distribution.
