As Tunisia attempts to balance its budget and free enough financial resources for investment programmes, dealing with the rise of business informality and tax evasion has become of paramount importance. Although exact figures on the issue are difficult to quantify, studies point to an increase in the volume of informal activity following the...
As a strained budgetary situation has been a challenge to public investment, efforts have been made to encourage the private sector to take on a larger share of necessary works. To attract the interest of foreign and domestic investors, Tunisian authorities have strengthened the regulation overseeing public-private partnership (PPP) agreements...
Long-viewed as an open economy with a unique geographic position at the centre of the Mediterranean, Tunisia has had difficulty in managing the macroeconomic situation following the 2011 revolution. Budgetary pressures, combined with a strong devaluation of the dinar and a rise in the level of business informality, have made the current...
Following independence from France the Tunisian Republic was founded in 1956. Habib Bourguiba – known as the father of the nation – tempered the influence of religion, pushed for women’s rights in the Personal Status Code and created secular, coeducational and bilingual schools. These measures helped Tunisia to establish itself leading...
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