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Conceived during World War II at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the World Bank's early operations helped to rebuild Europe after the war. Its first loan of $250 million, for example, was to France in 1947 for post-war reconstruction. As Europe recovered, reconstruction still remained an important focus of the Banks work, given the increasing number of natural disasters, complex humanitarian emergencies, and postconflict rehabilitation needs that have characterized the developing and transition economies.

Today, the Bank is very different from the institution that helped postwar Europe: it has sharpened its focus on poverty reduction as the overarching goal of all its work. It used to have a homogeneous staff of engineers and financial analysts, located solely in Washington, D.C. Today, it has a multidisciplinary and diverse staff including economists, public policy experts, sectoral experts, and social scientists; 40 percent of whom located in country offices.

During the 1980s, the Bank was pushed in many directions: early in the decade, the Bank was brought face to face with macroeconomic and debt rescheduling issues; later in the decade, social and environmental issues assumed center stage, and an increasingly vocal civil society accused the Bank of not observing its own policies in some highprofile projects.

To address concerns about the quality of Bank operations, the Wapenhans Report was released and soon after, steps toward reform were taken, including the creation of an Inspection Panel to investigate claims against the Bank. However, criticism increased, reaching a peak in 1994 at the Annual Meetings in Madrid.

Since then, the Bank Group has made much progress. All five institutions have been working separately and in collaboration to improve internal efficiency and external effectiveness. Clients report to be broadly pleased with the changes they see in Bank Group service levels, commitment, deliveries, and quality. More than ever before, the Bank is playing an important role in the global policy arena. It has effectively engaged with partners and clients in complex emergencies from post-conflict work in Bosnia to post-crisis assistance in East Asia to post-hurricane clean-up in central America to post-earthquake support in Turkeyand in Kosovo and East Timor. Notwithstanding these considerable progress, the Bank Group's agenda is not yet complete, nor can it ever be, while the challenges of development continue to grow.

To help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity, and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.

To be an excellent institution able to attract, excite, and nurture diverse and committed staff with exceptional skills who know how to listen and learn.

Client centered, working in partnership, accountable for quality results, dedicated to financial integrity and cost-effectiveness, inspired and innovative.

The Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) represents a new way of doing business for the Bank and its members. It is an approach to development that helps countries become the leaders and owners of their own development actions. The CDF is essentially a process; it sets out country-driven mechanisms for development stakeholders to reach consensus and work together and allows donors - including the World Bank - to be more selective in what they do to help countries achieve concrete results. The CDF is currently being piloted in 13 countries.

Knowledge Bank
We live in a global knowledge economy where knowledge, learning communities, and information and communications technologies are the engines for social and economic development.

In pursuit of this vision of knowledge for all, the World Bank Group is realigning its development efforts and forging new global partnerships to support the pressing analytical, policy reform, investment, and capacity building requirements of the knowledge revolution. Our strategy is evolving continuously, in response to lessons from pilot efforts, the changing contours of the knowledge economy, and the growing voice of developing countries in guiding the transformation.

At its September 1999 Annual Meetings, the World Bank Group and IMF agreed that country-owned poverty reduction strategies should provide the basis for all World Bank (IDA) and IMF concessional lending as well as debt relief under HIPC. These strategies are reflected in a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), an annually-updated document that the country prepares in collaboration with the Bank and IMF. The PRSP outlines the country's plans to foster growth and reduce poverty through three-year economic adjustment programs that include macroeconomic, structural, and social policies. In addition, the PRSP describes associated external financing needs and major sources of financing.

The PRSP is consistent with the framework set out in the CDF — in effect, the PRSP translates the principles of the CDF into practical plans for action.

The Bank's Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) -- based on the Bank's assessment of the country's priorities, past portfolio performance and creditworthiness -- sets out the level and composition of financial and technical assistance that the Bank seeks to provide to a member country. Indeed, while the country must "own" its vision and program, the Bank must "own" and be accountable to shareholders for its diagnosis and the programs it supports. The CAS normally takes a three-year focus on Bank activities and is developed in cooperation with the government and, often, with civil society. CASs for larger countries are revised and updated more frequently, some annually. All CASs are reviewed by the Bank's Board of Executive Directors.

In 1998, the Bank began issuing a CAS Public Information Notice (CPIN) following Board discussion of the CAS. In addition, at government request, the full text of the CAS may be disclosed.

The Bank's thematic and sector strategies address multiple facets of poverty reduction. These strategies focus on cross-cutting issues such as HIV/AIDS, the environment, and the role of participation and decentralization in development.

Thematic and sector strategies were originally intended to assess the appropriateness and impact of related Bank policies. Over time, they have come to serve additional purposes, including consensus-building within the Bank and strengthening relationships with external partners. The Bank's first thematic and sector strategies -- Rural Development and Health, Nutrition, and Population --were completed in 1997. These strategies reviewed the Bank's track record, incorporated lessons from OED findings and other evaluations, and articulated a vision to guide the Bank's future work in the sector. Thematic and sector strategies are updated every three years on a rolling basis. When reviewing and updating these strategies, the Bank engages in extensive consultations with a wide variety of stakeholders. Currently, the Bank is reviewing the Environment, Urban Transport, and Rural Strategies.

In pursuit of this vision of knowledge for all, the World Bank Group is realigning its development efforts and forging new global partnerships to support the pressing analytical, policy reform, investment, and capacity building requirements of the knowledge revolution. Our strategy is evolving continuously, in response to the lessons from our pilot efforts, the changing contours of the knowledge economy, and the growing voice of developing countries in guiding the transformation.

At the global level, we will continue to promote partnerships with key stakeholders to mobilize the resources and experience to address the challenges and opportunities of the knowledge economy. This will involve scaling up promising initiatives piloted over the past few years, as well as creating new partnerships to tackle emerging issues. At the country level, we will put knowledge at the center of the country development agenda and offer clients a broad array of knowledge products and services. Our work will focus on four critical elements.

4. RELATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE WORLD BANK

Turkey joined the World Bank in March 1947.First relations started with IBRD in

1950 but these relations stopped in 1954.In 1962 with IDA started again,and then Turkey was member to IFC in 1963,to IBRD in 1966 and to MIGA in 1988.After 1970 Turkey couldn’t use the credit from IDA because Turkey are not in low income countries.The Bank set up a country office in Ankara in 1988.

In today the World Bank finances the some investments which are like infrastructure,energy,agriculture and private sector investments in Turkey.The investments about private sector are divided into some industrial branches. The World Bank’s officers visit to Ministry Of Finance and DPT in Turkey everyear and take informations about Turkey’s economic situation and examine the investments in its place. The World Bank decides about investments which are appropriate to their principles.

The Turkey Country Department was decentralized from Washington DC to Ankara in 1998.The Bank’s lending program to Turkey,which average $150 million a year between 1990 and 1997 reached $1,8 billion in the fiscal year 2000.The loan portfolio includes financing for 23 active projects,while another dozen are under preparation.

The World Bank’s activities in Turkey are guided by a Country Assistancce Strategy (CAS),covering a two-to-three year period.This CAS is formulated with the Government,and takes into account the lessons of experience,as well as the views of donors,counterpart agencies,the private sector and Turkish NGOs working on development issues.The CAS and the program of support to Turkey reflect the active dialogue with the Government and other stakeholder;this dialogue is backed by in-depth analytical work on key economic and sectoral issues,including wide.ranging subjects such as living standards,structural reform,energy and the environment.

The industrilized nations which are able to borrow from international private capital markets don’t apply to The World Bank for credit.Japon was last country which used credit from the Bank in 1960.

The credit policy of the Bank is set up the project credits.In examing of credit the efficiency to production capacity and economic productivity of country are considered.In underdeveloped countries the program credits,which are used to finance the raw materials,intermediate and investment goods for development,are important as much as projects credits.But the World Bank gave project credits until 1987.After 1987 it started to give a program credits.

In underdeveloped countries there are some special projects which are required the national money.For example,the country,which is forced the domestic instruments of finance and avoids from the issuing money because of inflation,can meet this situation.The Bank can finance the country’s expenditures in national money.

The activities of IDA are concerning with underdeveloped countries.These countries couldn’t use credits from the World Bank at first,IDA set up for this requirement.This credits are used for infrastructure investments in underdeveloped countries.

After 1970s the policies of the Bank changed.One of them is start to give a program credits and the other change is that the projects,which are important for rural populations in underdeveloped countries,are considered effectively.For example,the finance of basic requirements an the preventing of poverty are firstly aims for the World Bank.

In mid-1999,the Government launched an extensive economic reform program to defeat high inflation and restore sustained growth.The Government’s strong resolve could lay the ground for Turkey to achieve macroeconomic stability and higher growth,modernize its institutions,and make progress in reducing economic vulnerability and the remaining pockets of poverty among its population.The World Bank is fully engaged in supporting this effort.

The Government’s economic reform program rests on three core elements:1)a strong up-front fiscal adjustment to put public finances on a sustainable path;2)major second generation structural reforms in a agriculture,pensions,banking,energy and telecommunications;3)a shift to forward indexation to lower inflationary expectations,in particular a pre-announced crawling peg exchange rate anchor.

World Bank support for program started with a $760 million Economic Reform Loan approved in May 2000.

But Turkey was hit by financial sector turmoil in late 2000.In response,the Government strengthened its program further including tighter macroeconomic policies for 2001 and a renewed commitment to structural reform.The World Bank committed an additional $1 billion for the program in the form of a $250 million Privatization Social Support Project and a $778 million Financial Sector Adjustment Loan.

Looking forward,the World Bank’s support for Turkey is outlined in the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) approved on December 21^st,2000.The CAS is built around five themes:

Provided Turkey continues to implement its bold program of economic and social reforms, the Bank could commit up to US$5 billion in new lending by June 2003, including US$1 billion committed in December 2000. Of this amount, over US$2 billion would support financial sector reforms, including restructuring and privatization of state banks.

Another key area for Bank support will be reform of public sector management. Similarly, significant lending and analytical and advisory services will continue in the social sectors, including social protection, education, and health. Bank support for better disaster prevention, environmental management, and technological advancement will continue with the implementation of the current portfolio, complemented by a selected set of new, strategically important operations.

As of January 2001, the World Bank had a portfolio of 23 ongoing projects in Turkey, including two grants-a Biodiversity Project funded by the Global Environment Facility and a Second Ozone-Depleting Substance Phase-Out Project supported by Montreal Protocol funds. Total commitments amount to US$4.8 billion, of which US$1.9 billion has been disbursed. About 35 percent of total commitments represent adjustment lending to support structural reforms. Recovery- and disaster-prevention activities represent about 25 percent of the portfolio; projects in the social sectors represent about 15 percent, infrastructure and energy sector investment accounts for about 15 percent, while private sector development represents roughly 10 percent.

The Country Assistance Strategy (CAS), based on careful analysis of economic reforms, living standards, and social welfare, will assist Turkey in reducing its economic vulnerability. Unemployment, and lack of education, partially explain this vulnerability, and poverty ratio, therefore, the CAS aims to: implement reforms for growth and employment generation; improve public management, and accountability; expand social protection, and services; strengthen environmental management, and disaster mitigation; and, accelerate connectivity, and technological capabilities. The strategy continues with a high case program, in parallel with the International Monetary Fund's Stand-By arrangements, which should assist Turkey's economic reforms, as well as catalyze substantial private inflows to meet external financing needs. It includes additional adjustment lending to help complete reforms, the Financial Sector Adjustment Loan, and the Privatization Social Support projects, while the International Finance Corporation, and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency programs will also continue the catalytic effect by demonstration, provision of guarantees, and attracting investments. Despite political pressure, the Government's ensured funding of safety net provision, and expected social programs, minimize political risks.

The Privatization Social Support Project for Turkey aims to support the achievements of the objectives of the Government's Privatization Program, mitigate the negative social and economic impact of the privatization of state-owned enterprises, and monitor the social impact of the Economic Reform Program (ERP). The project has two components, with the second component having several sub-components. The first component provides severance and related payments to workers displaced because of the privatization of state-owned enterprises. The second component provdies labor re-deployment services to workers who have been displaced becuase of privatization, and including secondary lay-offs, and assists them in rapidly re-entering the labor market. Sub-components comprise, as part of the development and maintenance of the administrative framework, developing inter-agency protocols, administrative arrangements such as sub-contracting procedures, monitoring, and reporting; developing public information on the Labor Redeployment Program for use by Lead Agencies, with state-owned enterprises, unions, service providers, the unemployed, and the general public; developing and operating a management information system; assessing and planning the demand for labor redeployment services; and delivering these services to unemployed workers through sub-contractors to the lead agencies, providing in-depth job counseling, temporary community employment, and worker re-training.

The Marmara Earthquake Emergency Reconstruction Project (MEER) finances reconstruction and interventions that will contain damages in the case of a similar event, especially since earthquakes are expected to hit regions in Istanbul and Izmir. This project has three main components: The first creates a comprehensive emergency management structure that coordinates and integrates risk reduction strategies, preparedness, response, and recovery. It also creates an insurance mechanism, establishing and expanding national catastrophic risk management and risk transfer capabilities by making liquidity readily available to resident owners of damaged or destroyed dwellings; reducing government fiscal exposure; ensuring the financial solvency of the pool; and reducing government dependency on the Bank and other donors. This first component also reviews legal reforms, and strengthens the municipal capability to regulate, plan, and implement disaster resistant development. Lastly, this component establishes a land information system while updating and improving obsolete registers and maps. The second component funds the development of a trauma program for adults, which sets up community mental health centers and programs for psychological and organizational support. The third component reconstructs permanent housing in earthquake-affected areas.

The Export Finance Intermediation Loan (EFIL) Project's primary objective is to provide short and medium term working capital and investment finance to private exporting enterprises to assist the Turkish exporting sector hurt by the recent global financial crisis. The secondary objective for long term sectoral development is that the EFIL structure enables a strategic dialogue and close interaction with the major banks and the Bankers Association in Turkey. The project consists of two components. The first, financing of sub-loans, will provide short and medium term financing for the procurement of input goods, equipment, works, and services by private exporters. The second component, provision of institutional development technical assistance to Turk Eximbank, will provide financing for the procurement of consulting services, information technology equipment, and related services and training for the further institutional strengthening of Turk Eximbank, in areas identified during appraisal and agreed between the World Bank and Turk Eximbank.

The objective of the Industrial Technology Project is to assist in the harmonization of Turkish technology infrastructure with European Customs Union (ECU) standards, and assist firms in upgrading their technological capabilities in order to improve the competitiveness of Turkish industry domestically and internationally. There are four project components. 1) Strengthening industrial property rights (IPR) services will support technical assistance and training of Turkish Patent Institute (TPE) to improve its operation and proceedings to bring harmonization with international agreements, and streamline the workflows of TPE to meet legal administrative requirements. 2) Strengthening metrology services will help upgrading the existing measurement services by improving the efficiency with which the measurements are performed, and embarking upon measurement services in chemical and medical metrology. 3) Restructuring research and development institutions will support investments in decentralization of responsibility to the individual technical institutes; stronger management for strategic planning, change management, and business development; and human resources development. 4) Supporting technology upgrading by firms will be conducted through the Technology Development Foundation of Turkey (TTGV) which will finance technology development activities including on-lending of funds and taking credit risk.

The three principal objectives of the Emergency Flood and Earthquake Recovery Project are to assist the Government of Turkey in: a) restoring basic infrastructure in municipalities and rural areas affected by the flood; b) providing assistance to restore housing in the earthquake affected Province of Adana; and c) reducing vulnerability to future floods and earthquakes. The first three components all contain technical assistance, design, and supervision of the investments. The first component, municipal and rural infrastructure, will help restore infrastructure in affected municipalities and rural areas. The second component, flood management and hazard reduction, will repair hydrotechnical infrastructure, modernize flood management system, improve forecasting and planning, and introduce liability and homeowner insurance. Earthquake reconstruction, the third component, will reconstruct household units in affected municipalities and rural areas, provide training and studies to reduce earthquake vulnerability, and introduce liability and homeowner insurance and construction industry liability insurance. The Project implementation unit component will help implement procurement and disbursement activities associated with the project.

The Commodities Market Development Project seeks to a) increase the marketing efficiency of grains and cotton through selected commodities exchanges; b) demonstrate the benefits resulting from increased private commodity marketing; and c) provide a model for development of other private exchanges, and impetus for governments to withdraw its intervention in the marketing of other commodities. The project consists of three components. First, modernization support to commodities exchanges will facilitate the financing of a range of eligible investments on a cost recovery basis at selected exchanges dealing with grain and cotton. Eligible investment categories are: training and technical assistance, laboratory and information technology equipment, and some civil works. Second, development of trading institutions and strengthening of oversight capabilities will consist of training and technical assistance to a) introduce nationally accepted, and internationally compatible quality grades for wheat and cotton; b) design and initiate the implementation of a warehouse receipt system; c) improve market surveillance and supervision of commodity exchanges; and d) assist in the establishment of a communication network linking commodity exchanges. Third, project impact evaluation will cover trade at participating exchanges, off-exchange trade within the catchment area of participating exchanges; and market integration and price convergence between participating exchanges.

The Basic Education Project supports the first phase of the basic education program. The objectives of the program are to: a) achieve universal coverage in an expanded, eight-year basic education cycle, b) improve the quality and relevance of basic education, and c) make basic education schools a learning resources for the community. The program consists of four components. First, expanded basic education coverage will support the training and recruitment of additional teachers and the design, construction, expansion, and upgrading of basic education schools. Second, improved basic education quality will support in-service training for teachers, inspectors, and school principals, provision of textbooks and educational materials for basic education schools, provision of hardware, software, and training for information technology in basic education schools. Third, program implementation support will provide equipment and technical assistance for implementation management. Fourth, monitoring and evaluation will support assessment of the outcomes of the program and providing continuos feedback to improve the effectiveness of the program in meeting its implementation progresses.

The Participatory Privatization of Irrigation Management and Investment Project aims to a) strengthen irrigation-related institutions by enabling the state hydraulic works (DSI) and the general directorate of rural services (GDRS) to provide guidance and technical support to water users' associations (WUO); and by helping WUOs to fulfill their responsibility for irrigation management and investment; b) relieve the public sector of funding and subsidizing the cost of irrigation operation and maintenance; c) initiate a process of reducing public sector responsibility for funding and managing irrigation investment; and d) promote efficient and sustainable use of irrigation systems. There are three components. The first purchases irrigation operations and maintenance equipment including wireless sets, motorcycles, vehicles, computers, cranes, winches and small backhoes/loaders, trucks, gradalls (truck-mounted machines with telescopic booms and wide buckets), graders, bulldozers, excavators, and draglines. The second component provides for consultants, training and study tours, computers, office and training equipment, and field vehicles. The third component helps a WUO purchase and install a drip irrigation system, which receives water from a small dam through an installed pipeline system, thus eliminating the need to use electricity for pumps to create pressure.

Eastern Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project would seek to identify and establish in-situ conservation areas in Turkey, for the protection of genetic resources and wild relatives of important crops and forest tree species that originated in Turkey. It will provide for sustainable in-situ conservation of genetic resources in cereals, horticultural crops, medicinal plants, forest trees, and pasture grasses and legumes through an integrated ecosystem approach. It will also contribute to the broader objective of conserving sustainable farming and forest systems that is a key element of the Watershed Rehabilitation project. The project will develop the institutional capacity in Turkey for preparing and implementing a national strategy for in-situ conservation which could include landraces in a second phase project, for which support from the GET will be sought. The aim is to test and develop a new approach to conservation of genetic diversity which has not been tried on a large scale anywhere in the world.

Agricultural Research Project will support government efforts to strengthen the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MARA) and the Ministry of Forestry (MOF) agricultural and forestry research services to provide appropriate technologies for solving farmers' problems and raising their incomes, with a concentration of effort on the less developed regions of eastern and southeastern Turkey. The project will strengthen: (a) the research capabilities of institutions developing technology suitable for eastern and southeastern Turkey; (b) national research programs in the areas of erosion control/soil conservation, soil fertility, pesticide management, residue control, and farming systems research; (c) research planning, budgeting and monitoring systems; and (d) capacity for testing food products for conformity to pesticide and hormone residue regulations; and will establish an Agricultural Economic Research Institute. The project includes civil works (laboratories, offices, workshops, staff housing), laboratory and field equipment, vehicles, staff training, incremental vehicle and equipment operating costs and technical assistance

· Kasım ve Şubat aylarında yaşanan krizler özellikle bankacılık kesiminin zaafiyetlerini artırmış, mali piyasalarda önemli dalgalanmalara ve istikrarsızlığa neden olmuştur. Böyle bir ortamda hazırlanacak programın genel stratejisi üç aşamadan oluşacaktır.

· Birinci aşamada, bankacılık sektörüne ilişkin tedbirler süratle alınarak, mali piyasalarda belirsizlik azaltılacak ve kriz ortamından en kısa sürede çıkılacaktır.

· İkinci aşamada özellikle faiz ve döviz kurunun belirli bir istikrar kazanması sağlanacak, böylece ekonomik birimlere orta vadeli bir perspektif kazandırılacaktır.

· Üçüncü aşamada, makroekonomik dengeler tesis edilerek ekonomide yılın ikinci yarısından itibaren istikrarlı bir büyüme ortamı sağlanacaktır.

· Bu temel stratejiler çerçevesinde, enflasyonla mücadele de kararlılıkla sürdürülecektir. Mart ve Nisan aylarında yükselmesi beklenen aylık fiyat artışları, uygulanacak olan sıkı maliye ve aktif para politikalarıyla, ve özellikle bankacılık kesiminin daha sağlıklı bir yapıya kavuşturulmasıyla birlikte tekrar düşme eğilimine girecektir.

· Dalgalı kur sistemine geçilmesi ile turizm ve ihracat gelirleri artacak olup, bu gelişmeler ödemeler dengesini olumlu yönde etkileyecektir.

· Ekonomik program ve yapısal reformların etkin uygulanması, doğrudan yabancı sermaye yatırımlarını artıracaktır. Bu süreci daha da hızlandırmak için gerekli tüm mevzuat alt yapısı süratle tamamlanacaktır.

· Enflasyonla mücadelede önemli bir araç olan gelirler politikasının sağlıklı olarak sürdürülmesi amacıyla toplumun tüm kesimlerinin desteğinin sağlanması temel amaçtır.

· Diğer taraftan, başta bankacılık ve özelleştirme olmak üzere 2000 yılında önemli adımlar atılmış olan yapısal reformların hayata geçirilmesinde kararlılık sürdürülecektir.

· Ekonomik programımız, güven ortamının yeniden tesis edilmesi ve siyasi kararlılığın çok keskin bir biçimde programın çözüm önerilerinin arkasına konulması temeline dayanacaktır.

· İçinde bulunduğumuz şartlar, programın ilk aşamasında, ekonomik istikrarın sağlanmasının bir ön koşul olduğunu göstermektedir. Programın nihai amacı ise, enflayonu tek haneli rakamlara çekmek, gelir dağılımını düzelterek sosyal adaleti temin etmek ve sürdürülebilir büyüme ortamını sağlamaktır.

· İçinde bulunulan durum, başta kamu bankaları olmak üzere bankacılık sisteminin çok ciddi bir biçimde ele alınmasını gerekli kılmaktadır. Bu nedenle programda bu sorunun çözümü öncelikli hedef olacaktır. Bu, ilk etapta kamu kaynaklarının kullanılmasını gerektirmektedir.

· Enerji sektöründeki devam etmekte olan liberalizasyon süreci, süratle ve kararlılıkla yürütülecektir.

· Enflasyonla mücadele, para politikasına ve orta vadede enflasyon hedeflemesine dayanacaktır. Bankacılık sektöründeki düzenlemeler enflasyonla mücadele programının önemli bir unsurudur. Kısa vadede para politikası piyasalarda istikrarı sağlamaya yönelik olarak uygulanacaktır.

· Programın diğer önemli dayanağı gelir (ücret, fiyat) politikasıdır. Bu açıdan toplumun tüm kesimlerinden destek sağlanması son derece önemlidir.

2001 yılı konsolide bütçe faiz dışı fazlası hedefine ulaşmak için alınması gereken politika tedbirleri aşağıdadır:

· Başta enerji ve petrol sektörü olmak üzere ithale dayalı ürünlerin fiyatları kurdaki değişiklikleri, artan maliyetleri ve tümüyle ekonomik gerçekleri yansıtacak şekilde geciktirilmeden ayarlanacaktır.

· Akaryakıttaki otomatik fiyatlandırma mekanizmasına devam edilecek ve Akaryakıt Tüketim Vergisi en az hedeflenen enflasyon ölçüsünde ayarlanacaktır.

· Dar gelirli çiftçilerin doğrudan gelir desteği sistemi ile güçlendirilmesi temel ilke olacaktır. Bu çerçevede devlet destekleme fiyatları, hedeflenen enflasyonu (TÜFE) aşmayacak şekilde artırılacak ve kuruluşların finansman imkanları dikkate alınarak miktar kısıtlamasına gidilecektir.

· Kamu kesiminde çalışan memur ve sözleşmeli personelin maaşları hedeflenen enflasyon oranını yansıtacak şekilde artırılacaktır.

· Tüm kesimleri ilgilendirmeyen ve ücret adaletini hedeflemeyen münferit ücret artış talepleri dikkate alınmayacaktır.

· Kamu işçilerinin ücretleri, istihdam kaybına yol açılmadan 1999 – 2000 dönemini kapsayan toplu iş sözleşmeleriyle sağlanan reel artışlar, bütçe imkanları ve kamu işletmelerinin ödeme kabiliyeti dikkate alınarak, kamu kesimi çalışanları arasında ücret adaleti gözetecek şekilde ayarlanacaktır.

· Banka kredileriyle ilgili özel karşılıkların tamamen vergiden düşürülmesine imkan veren kanuni düzenleme çıkarılacaktır.

· Gider artışına yol açacak yeni teşkilat kurulması ve yeni kadro ihdası dahil kaynağı olmayan harcama artırıcı hiç bir öneri gündeme getirilmeyecektir.

· Özelleştirme kapsamındaki kuruluşlardan, fonlardan ve döner sermayelerden konsolide bütçe kapsamındaki kurumlara ve KİT’lere kesinlikle işçi nakli yapılmayacaktır.

· İşletmelerin verimliliği ve etkinliği dikkate alınarak, emekliliği gelmiş kamu işçileri her türlü kanuni hakları verilerek emekliliğe sevk edileceklerdir.

· Maliye Bakanlığı’nın uygun gördüğü ödenek kalemlerinde blokaj uygulanacaktır.

· Vergi gecikme zammı oranı piyasa faiz oranları dikkate alınarak ve mükellefin vergi ödemekten kaçınmasını önleyecek düzeyde belirlenecektir.

· Çok zorunlu haller dışında yatırım programına yeni proje alınmayacak ve yıllara sari ihalelere gidilmeyecektir.

· Kamu maliyesinde harcamaların disiplin altına alınmasının yanısıra, gelir artırıcı önlemler de araştırılacaktır. Bu şekilde sağlanılabilecek yeni imkanlar, sosyal adaleti artırmak ve borç stoğunu düşürmek amacıyla kullanılacaktır.

· Ayrıca, özelleştirmenin istihdam boyutu ve yoksullukla mücadele ile ilgili olarak uluslararası kuruluşlarla koordineli bir strateji yürütülecektir.

· İş çevreleri ve işçi temsilcileriyle yoğun diyalog kurularak ılımlı ücret ve fiyat artışları sağlanacaktır. Kamu ücretlerinin tespiti konusunda kamu işveren sendikaları; Maliye Bakanlığı, Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı ve Hazine Müsteşarlığı ile koordinasyon içinde tespit edilecek ortak ücret stratejisi çerçevesinde müzakereleri yürütecektir.

· Yüksek Planlama Kurulu düzenli olarak toplanacak, Ekonomik ve Sosyal Konsey ekonomik gelişmeler hakkında düzenli olarak bilgilendirilecek ve sosyal kesim temsilcileri ile bire bir görüşmelerde bulunarak fiyat ve ücret konularında ekonomik programın hedefleri ile uyumlu hareket etmeleri sağlanacaktır.

· Türk Telekom’un özelleştirilme şansının artırılması için aşağıdakiler yapılacaktır:

· Türk Telekom’un %51’inin blok olarak, kalan hisselerinin halka arz yöntemi ve çalışanlarına satılması yoluyla tamamının özelleştirilmesine olanak sağlayacak yasal değişiklikler hızla yapılacaktır. Ayrıca, katma değerli hizmetlerin lisans devirlerine ilişkin deregülasyon çalışmaları hızlandırılacaktır.

· Türk Telekom Yönetim Kurulu’nun en öncelikli görevi şirketi özelleştirmeye hazırlamak olup, Yönetim Kurulu bu kapsamda ihale komisyonu ile yakın işbirliği içinde olacaktır.

· Üçüncü nesil mobil telefon (UMTS) lisansının satışına ilişkin hazırlık çalışmaları yapılacaktır.

· THY, TEKEL ve Şeker fabrikaları başta olmak üzere Özelleştirme İdaresi Başkanlığı’nın mevcut portföyünde bulunan kuruluşların özelleştirilmesi hızla tamamlanacaktır.

· Özelleştirme portföyüne alınacak yeni kuruluşların özelleştirmeye hazırlık çalışmaları Hazine Müsteşarlığı ve Özelleştirme İdaresi Başkanlığı tarafından müştereken yürütülecektir.

· Sivil Havacılık Kanunu’nda hemen değişiklik yapılarak Türk Hava Yolları iç hat uçuş fiyatlarını, ayrıca Hükümet onayına gerek kalmaksızın serbestçe belirleyecektir.

Bankacılık sektörü ekonomik programın acil olarak çözüm bulması gereken en büyük sorundur. Zaten büyük sorunları olan bankacılık sektörünün yapısı, Kasım 2000 ve Şubat 2001 krizleri ile daha da bozulmuştur. Şu anda bu sorun tüm ekonomiyi tehdit eder niteliktedir.

Kamu bankaları gecelik piyasadan çok yüksek miktarda borçlanma mecburiyetindedir. Bu bankacılık sistemini tehdit eden en acil sorundur. Bu sorunun çözümü için 3 kamu bankasına yaklaşık 13 katrilyon TL tutarında bir kaynak sağlanması gerekmektedir. Bu bankaların % 8’lik sermaye yeterliliği oranına ulaşmaları için ise sermaye katkısı olarak ilaveten Hazine tarafından 3 katrilyon TL civarında sermaye aktarılması gerekmektedir. Bu acil sorunun bir ölçüde çözümü için, oluşmuş görev zararları karşılığında piyasa koşullarında Hazine tarafından devlet iç borçlanma senedi ihrac edilecektir. Daha sonra, görev zararları karşılığı verilen bu kağıtlar nakde çevrilmek suretiyle kamu bankalarının bilançoları önemli ölçüde küçültülecektir. Yurtdışından sağlanacak kaynaklar öncelikle bu amaca tahsis olunacaktır.

· 3 kamu bankası için ortak bir yönetim kurulu oluşturulacak, bu yönetim kuruluna profesyonel bankacılar atanacak ve siyasi hiç bir baskı olmadan çalışacaktır.

· Bu şekilde oluşturulacak yönetim kuruluna Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı ile yapılacak bir değişiklikle yeniden yapılandırma yetkisi de verilecektir.

· Emlak Bankası’nın Ziraat Bankası ile birleştirilmesi Bankalar Kanunu çerçevesinde yapılacaktır.

· Sözkonusu kamu bankalarının ortak yönetim kurulu, fon yönetiminin profesyonelce yapılması için gerekli tedbirleri alacaktır.

· Bundan sonra kamu bankalarına zarar oluşturacak görev verilmeyecektir. Hükümetin sosyal açıdan gerekli gördüğü hallerde yardıma gerçekten muhtaç bazı kesimlere kamu bankaları kanalıyla verilecek destek, bütçeye konulacak ödeneklerden karşılanacaktır. Bu çerçevede, mevcut görev zararlarına ilişkin Kanun ve Kararnamelerin iptali ile ilgili yasal düzenlemeler hemen yapılacaktır.

· Bu yeniden yapılanma sürecinde, ekonominin ve özellikle küçük ve orta ölçekli özel girişimin en verimli şekilde çalışabilmesi için, sadece kamu bankaları değil tüm bankacılık sistemi gözönünde tutularak, yeni bir perspektif getirilmesi amacıyla her türlü çaba gösterilecektir.

· Kamu bankalarının piyasa kurallarına ve karlılık esasına uygun bir şekilde çalışması esastır. Bu amaçla fazla şubeler kapatılacak ve emekliliği hak eden personel emekli edilecektir.

TMSF’ye devredilen bankaların likidite ihtiyaçları kamu bankalarına benzer bir yöntemle çözülecek ve sorun yaratan kısa vadeli yükümlülükleri, bir plan dahilinde tasfiye edilecektir.

TMSF kapsamındaki bankalarla ilgili yapılacak her türlü işlem sırasında, mudilerin ve kreditörlerin alacakları, Aralık 2000 tarihinde Hükümet tarafından ilan edilen garanti kapsamında tam güvence altında olmaya devam edecektir.

Fon bankalarının sorunlu alacaklarının tahsili ile ilgili yasal düzenleme süratle yapılmalıdır.

TMSF kapsamındaki bankaların sorunlarının ele alınarak, 2001 takvim yılı içinde çözüme kavuşturulması gerekmektedir.

· edecektir. Tek ve nihai hedef olan fiyat istikrarını desteklemek amacıyla finansal piyasalardaki istikrarı korumak da Merkez Bankası’nın öncelikleri arasındadır. Mali piyasalardaki istikrarı sağlama ve koruma amacına yönelik olarak, kamu bankalarının sorunlarının çözülmesi ve mali sistem üzerinde yarattıkları baskının en aza indirgenmesine yönelik uygulamaların hayata geçirilmesi ve bankacılık sisteminin tümüne yönelik politikanın açıklanması büyük önem taşımaktadır.

· Merkez Bankası aşağıda belirtilen hedefler çerçevesinde tutarlı ve aktif bir para politikası uygulayacaktır. Buna göre, Merkez Bankası nihai amacı doğrultusunda kendi bilançosundan Net İç Varlıklar ve Net Uluslararası Rezervler büyüklüklerini operasyonel hedef olarak izlemeye devam edecektir. Net İç Varlıklar için belirlenecek değerler Merkez Bankası’nın para talebinin üzerinde para yaratmasını kısıtlayarak iç varlık genişlemesinin enflasyona yol açmasını engelleyecektir. Net Uluslararası Rezervler yeni program öncesi geçerli olan kur rejimi çerçevesine göre dengeleyici değişken rolünü önemli oranda yitirmesine rağmen yeni politikaların kredibilitesini yansıtacak bir sinyal mekanizması olarak algılanması, Net Uluslararası Rezervlerin açıklanan hedefle birlikte izlenmesini gerektirmektedir.

· Dalgalı kur rejimiyle birlikte Merkez Bankası’nın döviz piyasalarına müdahaleleri döviz kurunda kısa dönemde oluşacak aşırı dalgalanmaları telafi etme yönünde olabilecek ancak döviz kurunun uzun dönem denge değerini etkileyecek içerik ve boyutta olmayacaktır.

· Tek ve nihai hedef olan fiyat istikrarı Merkez Bankası’nın kurumsal altyapısını güçlendirmeye yönelik olarak hazırlanan yeni Merkez Bankası Kanunu’nda açık ve net bir biçimde yer almaktadır.

· Merkez Bankası aktif para politikası gereği, iç varlık genişlemesini kontrol altında tutmaya devam edecek orta vadede ise kısa dönem faizleri daha etkin olarak kullanılabilecek ve gerekli ön koşulların oluşması ile beraber enflasyon hedeflemesine geçilebilecektir.

· Şubat 2001 Krizi’nin mali etkisini yansıtacak şekilde Ek Bütçe Kanunu’nun çıkarılması ve Bütçe Kanunu’nun bazı maddelerinde (borçlanma limiti ve görev zararı gibi) değişikliklerin yapılması,

· Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası’na Avrupa Birliği normlarına uygun bir yapı getirecek yeni Merkez Bankası Kanunu’nun çıkarılması,

· Kamu İhale Kanunu ve kamulaştırmalara ilişkin yasal değişiklikler yapılması,

· Mevcut görev zararlarına ilişkin Kanun ve Kararnamelerin iptali ile ilgili yasal düzenlemeler yapılması,

· Banka kredileriyle ilgili özel karşılıkların tamamen vergiden düşürülmesine imkan veren kanuni düzenleme çıkarılması,

	World Bank