Tunisia is currently in something of a paradoxical situation. As the country of origin of the Arab Spring, it is, to date, the only example of a successful peaceful democratic transition in the Arab world. After a long and laborious gestation, the National Constituent Assembly, elected after the 2011 revolution, adopted, by an overwhelming...
The Constituent National Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a new constitution on January 26, 2014, after debating for months in collaboration with several international organisations and guarantors of human rights, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The adoption of a new constitution often denotes a desire to break with the...
Five years after the revolution of January 2011, Tunisia has yet to return to the dynamic growth it used to have in previous decades. The economy was quite flat in 2015, with 0.8% growth, and only a moderate growth of 2.8% is planned for 2016. The business community is still concerned about the slow path of structural reform implementation and...
GENERAL RULES: Below is a description of the general rules for taxes in Tunisia. Specific elements of the tax code are described in more details later in the chapter.
Over the past decade, the Tunisian pharmaceutical sector has experienced steady double-digit growth at between 10% and 15% a year as a result of increased domestic demand for drugs, emerging export markets and the implementation of a favourable business environment. As a whole, the Tunisian drug sector generated $745m in 2015, with local...
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