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favourable circumstances: industriai peace, the Lebanese influx, a booming Middle Eastern market for Cypriot manufactured goods, a good harvest enhanced by good international prices for (the much curtailed Greek) Cypriot food exports, were exploited by the well developed human capital resources and turned into a rapid recovery. This chapter draws a rough sketch of the economy of the (mostly Greek Cypriot) Republic of Cyprus, before and after 1974, attempting to draw a distinction between these two long term developmental phases. Generally it argues that, whilst war was a personal tragedy for many, and perhaps the island as a whole, many favourable circumstances (exogenous or otherwise) contributed to the recovery and war ultimately acted as an economic accelerator. After the immediate conséquences of war had abated, war and the de facto loss of territory led to the concentration of more Greek-Cypriot resources, in more dynamic areas of the economy. A snap-shot of the economy as it grapples with independence; an overview of the economy of the Republic of Cyprus 1960-1970. When Cyprus gained independence in 1960, it is thought to have done so as an under-developed British colony 3 . If the World Bank had produced a "World Development Report" in 1960, and Cyprus had been included, it would have been ranked above Spain, Lebanon, Greece, South Africa and Singapore and below 3,1 Cyprus is a less-developed country only in the sense that much of its present production is not based on modem techniques, that it needs more capital investment, and that its level of living is low. It is certainly not underdeveloped in the sense that... vast natural resources [are] idly waiting to be utilised. To some extent, Cyprus may be regarded as over-developed in the sense of being exhausted. The present problems of drought, soil érosion, and water shortage are in part the product of past errors in the protection and préservation of natural resources. " UN. Programme of Technical Assistance, 1961. Cvprus - Suggestions for a Development Programme, (the 'Thorp Report'). Prepared by Willard L. Thorp. NY: UN, page 1, paragraph 1. 63
Uruguay, Japan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Argentina, respectively 4 . Using purchasing power parity estimâtes, the Penn World Tables 5 have per capita income estimâtes, in current international prices, for 125 countrìes in 1960. On the basis of its per capita income of just over $550 6 , Cyprus would be ranked 41 st out of the 125 countries in 1960. By the same measure, Summers and Heston have estimated that per capita income in Cyprus in 1960 was nearly 20% of US per capita income in the same year, slightly less than Greece and slightly more than Turkey 7 . In many ways Cyprus looked like a typical newly independent country, with serious structural imbalances, most obviously manifest in pervasive underemployment, particularly in the agricultural sector. In 1960 two thirds of its 573,000 population were still rural; 18% of the total population (over the âge of 7 years) and 27% of women, were illiterate, which is understandable when 25% of the overall population and 36% of women, 20 years of âge or over, had never attended school 8 . So in 1960, it is perhaps not surprising to discover also that 44% of the gainfully employed were in agricultural sector, producing under 16% of GDP (see Figures 2.1 and 2.2). Out of the three main sectors of economic activity, primary, secondary and tertiary, only the tertiary sector looked very productive in Cyprus in 1960. 4 Ranking per capita income for all économies listed in the first "World Development Report", published in 1978, plus Cyprus (which was not included because it had a population below 1 million), but excluding the centrally planned économies. Data for per capita income in this comparison dérivés from IBRD, World Tables 1971. World Bank Publications, Baltimore: John Hopkins University, table 4, and is in US$1964. 5 Summers, R. & Heston, A. 1994. "Penn World Tables, version 5.6". Cambridge MA: The National Bureau of Economic Research (http://nber.Harvard.edu/pwt56.html). 6 International $s at 1960 international prices. 7 Summers, R. & Heston, A. 1994. op. cìt. 8 Republic of Cyprus 1997. Statistical Abstract 1995. Nicosia: Ministry of Finance, Dept. of Statistics and Research, pp. 36, 84. 64
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to th
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ABSTRACT This thesis examines the e
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Table Of Contents Page Change in ec
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List Of Figures 2.27 Revenue from t
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List Of Figures 5.25 Main destinati
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List Of Figures 7.8 The degree of o
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to pick the Republic of Cyprus as t
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of offshore companies registered in
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Figure 2.27 Revenue from the offsho
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Figure 2.29 The changing compositio
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The structure of the economy, the c
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CHAPTER 3. The foundations of Takis
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Famagusta enclaves would be over-ru
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The historical context of separate
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generally concentrated in the lower
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agreed Constitution. Seemingly Clar
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séparation of the communities bega
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UN. 37 Some additional supplies mus
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Seemingly, by 1970 the Nicosia encl
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was made on the basis of a fixed in
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derived from Turkish transfer payme
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Patrick has offered a more complica
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spare parts and maintenance materia
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Emphasising the growing divisions b
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Chamber, Rauf Denktash, said people
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Figure 3.2 Thepossible economic eff
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produced by them rises significantl
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Committee" was the area military co
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February 1975 the latter bodies set
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The first five-year pian, published
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CHAPTER 4. The construction of a Tu
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Whilst the Turkish-Cypriot leadersh
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of supply, and/or marketing, in key
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shipment of 2000 tons of foodstuffs
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Eti still operateci out of Nicosia,
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institutions in northern Cyprus amo
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with multipurpose co-operatives, a
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A few new co-operatives were formed
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loans. Savings Banks do have access
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espectively. The Famagusta branch w
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Cypriot) Government in the 1960s, t
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increasing costs 31 . This is perha
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packages imported raffinate, supply
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a monopoly respectively. Where ther
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Evkaf is an Islamic organisation fo
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Evkaf had a largely obscure economi
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Meanwhile a little noticed phenomen
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After the summer of 1974, the Turki
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monitored Ledra Place check-point,
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the early eighties, when Turkish ar
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Figure 4.3 Number of tourists from
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the situation that had existed prio
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stay arrivais or diminish with the
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competing with the longer establish
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flexibility of family business stru
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Ltd., Turkish-Cypriots eventually g
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dominateci by: textiles, footwear a
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force of national cohésion, change
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Figure 4.9 Main Citrus Exporters in
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Ismail Bozkurt (who secured 32.1% o
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Table 4.9 Citrus exports from north
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Ultimately the failure to act on pr
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CHAFTER 5: Re-establishing economic
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prospects of their respective de fa
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Figure 5.1 Change in Cypriot GDP as
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{0 perceive the de facto situation
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Turkey maintains that her objective
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parliament during the unstable peri
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case study, he argues that given en
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Specifically, it is analysis of nat
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imports (Figure 5.5). The extent to
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(which includes the increasingly im
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If "a leading sector in the process
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Just to put minds at rest that manu
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encouraged private sector action, t
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Figure 5.13 Gross domestic fixed ca
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major economic force, one that was
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they account for around a third of
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dominates international transfer pa
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a "development resource" 54 , rathe
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able to spearhead a revival aided,
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path, policy objectives moved to co
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overwhelming dependence on a genera
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In the difficult times that followe
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independence from total Turkish fin
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Figure 5.20 Orange production as a
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e exchanged for new "TRNC" (or, as
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Unlike the vineyards where most of
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Although not important in the initi
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Having said this, constant improvem
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compensation arrangements in the no
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some of the labour intensive stages
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Figure 5.24 Proportion of citrus ex
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to treat exports from the whole of
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seem more politically motivateci an
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Figure 6.1 Percentage change in GNP
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initially. The more immediate probl
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historical phenomena (large externa
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It has been argued that if politics
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share of National Income to somethi
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Figure 6.6 Communal income in 1980,
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Selecting peers as proxies for pan-
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growth potential to Cyprus in 1960,
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was that compatible data should be
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Figure 6.9 Micro Economies; average
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Figure 6.11 Micro Economies; averag
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Figure 6.13 The level of government
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Figure 6.14 "More Developed Medìte
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Figure 6.17 "More DevelopedMediterr
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Cypriot growth rate, should not dis
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Figure 6.22 Structure of production
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Figure 6.26 Degree of openness in t
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economic growth 49 (variables 6-9:
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implication, developmental différe
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spectrum in 1980 at 38%. Perhaps le
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namely investment rates 54 (in phys
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instruments, the justification for
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Figure 6.28 Average annual growth i
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Figure 6.29 How Cyprusfared in 1980
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Figure 6.30 Total Cypriot income 19
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o.zö; may reveai someimng 01 ine e
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developments elsewhere. The relativ
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unified economy) of 1963, Cyprus is
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CHAPTER 7. Conclusion 348 Comparati
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Turkish-Cypriot economy stagnateci.
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So it is worth looking again at the
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stand out however, revealing enough
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Figure 7.3 Gross domestic investmen
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Figure 7.5 "TRNC netforeign trade a
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Figure 7.8 The degree of openness i
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control. There seems to be ampie ex
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The role of tourism in the economic
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seem to be able to grow in line wit
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Comparisons throughout this thesis
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The Cyprus Mail Hellenic Group. Nic
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I.M.F. International Financial Stat
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1982. Fourth Emergency Economic Act
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"Turkish Federated State of Kibris"
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leadership of the two communities o
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"administrations" and key economic
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Bicak, H.A. (June) 1990. "The Impac
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Hudson, J. and Dyniotou-Jensen M. 1
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Mcdonald, R. 1989. The Problem of C
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Solsten, E. (ed.) 1993. Cvprus: A c
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