Integration with the Global Economy: The Case of Turkish Automobile and Consumer Electronics Industries

This paper aims to contribute to the extensive study of the World Bank Commission on Growth and Development by a case study of the Turkish automotive and the consumer electronics industries. Despite a macroeconomic environment that inhibits investment and growth, both industries have achieved remarkable output and productivity growth since the early 1990s and played a critical role in generating employment and fostering growth. Although there are similarities between the performances of automobile and consumer electronic industries, there seems to be significant differences between their structures, links with domestic suppliers, technological orientation and modes of integration with the global economy. The automobile industry is dominated by multinational companies, has a strong domestic supplier base, and has seized the opportunities opened up by the Customs Union by investing in new product and process technology and learning. The consumer electronics industry is dominated by a few, large domestic firms, and has become competitive in the European market thanks to its geographical proximity, productive domestic labor, and focus on a protected and technologically mature CRT color television receivers segment of the marker, which also helps explain the recent decline in industry’s fortunes. It is without doubt that these industries could have performed even better had governments in Turkey adopted more responsive macroeconomic policies. It is certain that governments could be more responsive only if far-reaching political/institutional reforms are undertaken by changing the Constitution, and current political party and election laws in order to establish public control over the political elites.Macroeconomic policies; automobile industry; consumer electronics industry; political elites; political reforms.

Use of submarine tailings disposal as alternative tailings management system

The importance of the mining/milling industry in increasing the growth level and welfare of countries is quite high. However, at the end of mining/milling processes, huge amounts of waste (often known as tails) are inevitably produced that have no economic value and can even be considered dangerous due to some heavy metals they contain. These tails are highly problematic due to both their volume (difficult to manage environmentally) and toxicity (potential to cause acid/leach waters) and need to be handled outside of existing disposal methods. This article presents the effective and sustainable handling and application of tails resulting from the enrichment of copper-zinc ores, which are actively engaged in metallic mining activities in the northeast of Turkiye, with the submarine tails disposal (STD) method. In the mining operation under study, some (similar to 55-60 wt.%) of the tails are employed as underground fill, even though the residual part is disposed of by the STD method. The characterization of ore beneficiation tails, their transportation to the subsea via a pipeline system, and discharge monitoring results are detailed in the present investigation. According to the limitations which are indicated by the Turkish Control of Water Contamination regulation, the concentration of Pb-Cu found in the results was under the allowable limit of 0.05 mg/L. The allowed 2 mg/L limit for Zn was not surpassed mainly by the concentration found in the collected samples. pH values were almost above the allowable limit of pH > 5. The results reveal that the STD technique works quite well as an integrated mine tails method in the mine under study

Galatasaray’ın ve Fatih Terim’in Kütüphanecilere Söyledikleri

Bu yazıda ülkemizi Avrupa’da başarıyla temsil etmiş olan Galatasaray futbol takımının takım yönetimi anlayışı ve buna bağlı olarak gösterdiği performans bağlamında kütüphanecilik alanına kısa bir göz atılmış ve kimi küçük karşılaştırmalar yapılmıştır

Kütüphanecilik Alanında Halkla İlişkiler Çalışmaları ve Televizyon

Public relations is an indispensable management function for an organization to reach its target audiences so as to serve them better and, at the same time, to upgrade its status in society as an organization. Television, as mass communication medium, is used effectively in public relations in librarianship. Researches showed that planned public relations is not utilized in the field of librarianship in our country, and television is not made use of for this purpose.Halkla ilişkiler bir kurumun hizmet verdiği hedef kitleye ulaşarak onlara en iyi hizmeti vermesi ve bu arada kurumun da gelişerek toplumda iyi bir yere sahip olması konusunda vazgeçilmez bir yönetim fonksiyonudur Televizyon ise, bir kitle iletişim aracı olarak, kütüphanecilikte halkla ilişkiler uygulamalarında son derece etkin olarak kullanılan bir araçtır. Ancak araştırmalar göstermektedir ki, ülkemiz kütüphanelerinde planlı halkla ilişkiler çalışmaları yapılmamakta ve bu amaçla televizyondan yararlanılmamaktadır