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2006, Contributions to economic analysis
During the last five decades Tunisia managed to achieve a robust long-run GDP growth of about 5% per year, against 3.5% only, for the MENA region as a whole. However, Tunisia failed to reduce obvious inefficiencies such as high protection, financial repression, and a highly regulated economy in general. The present study attempts to explain why the country was unable to do better in this respect, even though it was a top performer in social modernization and it started its economic reforms relatively early. The study adopts the political economy approach to explain independent Tunisia's development policy choices, based on the theory of collective action and an analysis of contracting problems of representation, coordination, and commitment. The paper draws on some lessons from Tunisia for the other MENA countries. It stresses the importance of women's rights, population control, and modern education. In addition, it refers to the recent examples of Morocco and Kuwait regard...
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Three overarching features characterize the recent economic evolution of Egypt and Tunisia. First, they were the celebrated macroeconomic “success stories” of neoliberalism in the Arab Mediterranean and participated fully in the worldwide economic boom of the 2000-2008 period. Second, the accompanying spread of negative features ultimately underpinned the uprisings of 2010-2011, including unemployment, especially among educated youth, poverty, especially in the neglected hinterlands, expanding informal sectors, corruption and cronyism, electoral fraud, and repression of labor, civil society organizations and political opposition. Third, as of March 2014, none of the governments that followed the ousting of the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes had presented a coherent program for more equitable and sustainable economic transformation, while political turmoil, violence – two political assassinations in Tunisia and the overthrow of the elected president in Egypt -- and instability prevailed. Aside from the perpetuation of stagnation in an atmosphere of mistrust and uncertainty, there was a spectrum of possible approaches for economic transformation. From “right to left” these included (1) neoliberalism with an inclusive mask, as promoted by the IFIs and Deauville Partnership, (2) a developmental state and industrial policy in the East Asian mode, (3) a more egalitarian developmental state as proposed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and International Labor Organization (ILO), and (4) a citizen-led developmental state as encoded in the work of NGOs and the independent trade union movement.
Built Environment
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The Promise of Democracy in Tunisia Since the Arab SpringAbstract: Tunisia has often been praised as the only democratic success story of the Arab world. Today, following the exceptional measures undertaken by President Kais Saied to freeze parliament and dismiss the prime minister, that description is being challenged, and democracy is called “a failed experiment.” This article explains why this is happening in Tunisia by examining the roots of the main political and economic challenges to Tunisia’s democratic path. The article also offers insights into the consequences of these changes at the national and the regional level.
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