CATEGORY: OBG CEO Surveys
Tunisia’s business community remains cautiously optimistic about local business conditions in the next 12 months, with only 50% of the latest 2019 OBG Business Barometer: Tunisia CEO Survey respondents saying they have positive or very positive expectations. Not only is this figure down from the previous survey conducted in 2017, when 77% of CEOs were positive or very positive, but it also is low relative to our findings in other African markets. For instance, in Morocco and Egypt this figure stood at 73% and 95%, respectively, in our latest CEO surveys, while 73% of respondents in Côte d’Ivoire and 93% in Ghana had positive or very positive expectations.
Tunisia’s business community remains cautiously optimistic about local business conditions in the next 12 months, with only 50% of the latest 2019 OBG Business Barometer: Tunisia CEO Survey respondents saying they have positive or very positive expectations. Not only is this figure down from the previous survey conducted in 2017, when 77% of CEOs were positive or very positive, but it also is low relative to our findings in other African markets. For instance, in Morocco and Egypt this figure stood at 73% and 95%, respectively, in our latest CEO surveys, while 73% of respondents in Côte d’Ivoire and 93% in Ghana had positive or very positive expectations.
In the latest OBG Business Barometer: Oman CEO Survey the sultanate’s business community named labour law as the area in need of the most reform in order to promote economic growth: of the nearly 100 C-suite executives that were interviewed, this was the most popular answer, at 59%. In addition, leadership (35%) and engineering (22%) were identified as the skills most in need by the economy. Here, the country’s labour laws, and in particular the strict imposition of Omanisation quotas, are again proving tricky to navigate for the country’s employers, although the issue is also compounded by the historic tendency of locals to opt for public over private sector employment.