Turkmenistan economy can be regarded as partly affected by 2008 global financial crisis due to limited degree of integration to international financial markets. An explosion at a pipeline caused a drop in the volumes of gas imported by Russia in 2009 but as Turkmenistan owns considerably high volumes of natural resources, current account balance of the country has faced positive developments afterwards. The most important reason for these positive developments is that hydrocarbon exports have been significantly high. High hydrocarbon exports continued to be the main source of economic growth and improved current account balance in 2014.
Hayal Ayca Simsek graduated from Public Finance Department of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in Dokuz Eylul University in 1995 and she started working as a research assistant in Public Finance Department in 1996. Starting her master education in 1995, she completed this process in 1997 by presenting her master thesis namely ‘Alternative Fiscal Policies in Determining the Limits of Government’. Hayal Ayca Simsek started doctorate process in 1998 and completed this process in 2003 by presenting her doctoral thesis namely ‘Constitutional Economics As An Alternative for Achie