Etudes par pays volume 2, PDF, 346 p., 1,4 Mo - Femise

11873_2002 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour
such as education and health become the most efficient tool for preventiong
poverty. Government is the most active player in social benefits in Turkey.
In other words, payments for social benefits are paid by governments budget
from an item called “social transfer payments.”
However, these payments cannot be thought as enough given the magnitude
of poverty in Turkey. Usually the poor has no social security for themselves
and their families. Only those people who work with daily and/or monthly
salery have social security. The reminder of the population has no socail
security at all.
Table 1: Distribution of the poor in terms of Social Security Institutions (%) (2001)
FONDAZIONE CENSIS
20 PERCENTILE Total
1 2 3 4 5
Ssk 2,17% 4,96% 7,75% 16,10% 16,31% 9,58%
Emekli sandiği 0,00% 0,41% 0,39% 1,50% 1,77% 0,83%
Bağ-kur 2,53% 3,72% 4,26% 6,37% 9,22% 5,28%
Private 0,00% 0,00% 0,39% 0,00% 0,71% 0,23%
Non-registere 95,31% 90,91% 87,21% 76,03% 71,99% 84,09%
Total 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Source: Authors’ calculations from 2001 Household Labor Survey
As can be seen from Table 1, most of the poor are not covered by any social
security benefits. This means that government does not provide enough
social security benefits for its workers.
It is going to be meaningful to see the development of transfer policies with
respect to years.
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