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Turkey: what to make of Erdogan’s new economic powers?

Moves over the past 24 hours by Turkey’s President Erdogan to consolidate his power is likely to result in pressure for looser monetary and fiscal policy, but this will ultimately come at the cost of weaker (and more volatile) economic growth, higher inflation and sharper falls in the lira.

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