Reflection to poverty of monetary policies applied in Turkey after 1980

The aim of the study is to explore whether the monetary policies applied in Turkiye after 1980 have any effects on poverty. What is the dimension of the poverty in Turkiye, where, since 1980, economic policies have been continuously modified and economic crisis have occurred periodically? Regarded as one of the developing countries, Turkiye applied various EU adjustment programs and attempted to develop its economic structure parallel to these programs. Varying from society to society, monetary policies registered influences on the subsistence and economic development levels of family members. As a result, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. In the study, the effects of monetary policies between 1980 and 2008 on the living standards of both the high SES, who get the biggest economic share and low SES, who get poorer, is explained. Thus, the topic is evaluated via monetary policy charts and poverty variables.Chapter one contains the literature review about poverty. First, the narrow and broad definitions of poverty are explained. Then, the semantic values of sub-categories of poverty in relation to social dynamics and family structures are defined. The statement that the general meaning of poverty is to struggle to live in such a condition which is below the subsistence level implies deeper deductions when considering with sub meanings. In the next part of the chapter one, the different approaches to the poverty are explained and the relationship between these approaches and poverty types is emphasized. Finally in this chapter, poverty calculation methods are defined, the poverty calculation methods in the world and the differences in each method are explained.In the second chapter, the purposes and instruments of monetary policies are defined and the roles of these purposes and instruments in the policies are explained in detail. After this, beginning form 1980, the economic crises that Turkiye faced up to and the changes and the effects of these crises on macroeconomic values and monetary indicators are listed in annual basis. This is supported with tables and charts representing the annual changes in macroeconomic values.