The evaluation of turkey's international competitiveness and foreign direct invetsment

With the contraction of the global markets, companies are being forced to face with numerous rivals in their operating countries. Today this situation can be summarized as `global competitiveness?. Companies willing to continue their existence in any competitive market, have to adapt themselves to the facts of global competitiveness.Concerning global competitiveness, developing and developed countries differs from one another by means circumstances. In the developed markets, because of the high number of competitors and high satisfaction rate of the consumers, it seen that companies are not able to meet their expectations. As a result, companies shift to emerging and developing countries, in the form of direct foreign investments, in order to strengthen their competitiveness. In the developing countries situation differs regarding developed countries. By the help of global market approach and increasing foreign direct investments in the developing countries; amount of money circulation rises, advance technologies improve, companies in the developing countries desire to level up and improve themselves in order to increase their competitiveness.In summary when we have a general look in the direct foreign investment and global competitiveness, direct foreign investment has positive effect on the markets that they invest. Know how, Technologies, education quality are some of the positive facts that foreign direct investment bring to a market. Through these facts, it can be pointed out that foreign direct investment has a huge impact on competitivenes of the markets.Key words: Direct foreign investment, Competitiveness, Global Competitiveness