M. Metin Başbay

M. Metin Basbay is a Researcher at TRT World. His research mostly focuses on economic policy in the context of underdeveloped and developing countries. Metin holds a BA in Economics and a BA in Sociology, both from Bogazici University and is currently a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge where he also completed his MPhil in Economics.
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The Geopolitics of the Renewable Energy Transition: Winners and Losers

This paper argues that the ongoing transition towards renewable energy has significant implications beyond environmental impacts. The transition will deeply influence economic, political, and...

Voting in the Time of Corona: The Economic Dimension of the 2020 US Presidential Elections

If the economic impact of Covid-19 remains short-lived and the American economy quickly returns to some sense of normalcy, President Trump may still be...

The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Global Outlook

This book is an endeavour to search for meaning through an examination of possible implications of the Covid-19 pandemic from a variety of angles...

Emerging Economies and the Covid-19 Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities

This paper first introduces a short discussion of general trends affecting emerging economies, which have emerged during the Covid-19 crisis. This paper first introduces a...

Back to the Future: A New Keynesian Age

This paper argues that the Covid-19 crisis will accelerate the major policy transformation already underway in developed economies towards a Keynesian framework. This paper argues...

Transitioning to New Economic Normal with COVID-19

As the COVID-19 virus is here to stay, governments need to do more than just keeping businesses afloat until the turmoil is over. We...

Can Turkey Emerge from Covid-19 as a ‘Developmental State’?

This paper concludes that the deep transformations caused by the Covid-19 crisis provide developing countries like Turkey with more space and flexibility for policymaking....

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