1 Regional Policy and Economic Convergence in Turkey: a Spatial Data Analysis

In order to have an equal economic growth performance across regions and provinces, governments give grants to poorer regions either in the form of subsidies, supports or they just allocate a comparatively higher amount of government expenditures for these regions. The motivation behind this policy is the argument that in a market economy, firms tend to invest more in central regions than in the periphery, and as a consequence, regiona