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In 2008, the conjuncture of the world's financial crisis significantly affected the developed countries, as well as emerging economies. It is the fact that the global financial crisis effects on developed countries have shown itself in 2008; on the other hand the influences of the crisis occurred in 2009 in developing countries. In this study, determined as a common denominator in the upper-middle income by the World Bank Group of 23 countries whether facing the crisis of 2008 with using cluster analysis of similar or diverging reactions are presented. After analysis, it is observed that chosen countries formed in 5 clusters. In general, it is possible to say that the countries exhibits similar responses within groups; China, Malaysia, Thailand, as a group; Belarus, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Venezuela, as a group; Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Romania, as a group; Brazil, Chile, Panama, and South Africa, as a group; Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Latvia, as a group, Turkey, Uruguay, and Costa Rica, as a group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, the most important problem faced by developing countries in increasing their production levels is the lack of domestic savings. Countries try to attract foreign direct investments in order to eliminate the capital deficit that arises for this reason. With the opportunities provided by foreign direct investments, the increase in production and consequently in exports has become an important policy target. Empirical studies reveal that foreign direct investments on countries may have an increasing effect on exports. There are a limited number of studies in the literature that examine the effects of foreign direct investments on a sectoral basis. In this context, it is also important to examine the effects of foreign investments on a sectoral basis. In this study, the effects of foreign direct investment on the Turkey’s textile industry has tried to analyse. As a result of our econometric studies, it has been observed that foreign direct investments in the textile industry have an increasing effect on exports. In this sense, it can be stated that direct investments for this production area are in accordance with the development goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]