Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 28 / Trend S.Isayev/
Turkey's GDP net import intensity rose to all time high as nominal import growth accelerated to around 40 percent - about twice as the rate of exports, new 2012 International Monetary Fund report said.
As a result, the current account deficit expanded from over 6 percent of GDP in 2010 to 9 percent of GDP in the first half of 2011.
Although energy accounts for the largest part of the trade deficit (around 4 percent of GDP on average recently), the non-energy balance contributed three-quarters of the deterioration.
These developments reflect a large decline in the private sector saving-investment balance that more than offset the improved public sector balance, in addition to continued substitution toward imports reflecting the recent considerably overvalued real exchange rate.
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