In recent days, many events have been organized in connection with Tunisians residing abroad, about 10% of the Tunisian people, and whose contribution to the national economy is becoming increasingly important. That is not due only to remittances transferred , but also thanks to other more decisive factors that are involved ,i.e. the full potential ...
The Board of Directors of the Maghreb Employers' Union (MEU) held its periodical meeting, on Monday in Algiers, with attendance of the founding members, the chairmen of the five Maghreb employers’ organisations. The meeting was held under chairmanship of Hedi Djilani, Chairman of the Tunisian Industry ...
The periodic meeting of the Executive Board of the Central Bank of Tunisia took place on Thursday 30 July 2009. A press release issued following the meeting said that the Executive Board pointed out the putting into circulation of the new 50 dinar banknote, the issue of which came to go along the evolution of volumes of transactions ...
Moody's Investors Service has today placed the local and foreign currency deposit ratings of four Tunisian banks on review for possible downgrade in light of its global review of systemic support indicators and stress testing for the banking systems. Bank financial strength ratings (BFSRs) of affected Tunisian banks remain unchanged ...
44 124 jobs were saved thanks the presidential measures taken to help exporting manufacturing businesses cope with the financial crisis, said Industry, Energy and Small and Medium Businesses minister Afif Chelbi when addressing recently the media in Tunis. He stated that the number of workers made redundant because of the crisis reached 5 thousand ...
Tunisia is among the countries that are set to benefit from the 70 million Euros from the European Commission as part of their financing of investment projects in partner countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The projects concern the sectors of energy, transport and the environment, as well as the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and the social sector. The sum that has ...
Productivity in Tunisia is not yet that one urged by businesses, government and even foreign investors. This delay is probably due to a slow dissemination of the culture of performance, but other factors are involved emphasizing the urgent necessity and even urgency to change things by developing new approaches and ...
A recent report by Pyramid Research dubbed “Communications Market in Tunisia”, says that Tunisia’s telecom market is set to become one of the fastest growing in the Africa Middle East market with total revenues estimated at 2,2 billion dollars by 2014 on the basis of a growth average of some 5,4% over the next five years. ...
Furtherance of execution of the second exports development programme (2005-2009) was the central issue of the meeting with the press the trade and handicrafts ministry held on Saturday. Funded by the World Bank, this programme, which is an extension of the first one (2000-04), ...
Works of the first Mediterranean conference on “Financial Crises: Would they Happen Again? Understand and Reform” started Monday in Tunis. Presiding over the gathering, Tunisia’s Central Bank (TCB) Governor Taoufik Baccar specified that the current crisis is multifaceted. Thus, he went on ...
Tunisia is preparing to address the important water challenges of the next few decades as a result of growing demand and shrinking supply. Tunisia’s institutions ...
Tunisia and Algeria signed, at the end of the meeting of Algerian-Tunisian Committee on Energy, a series of agreements aimed at strengthening energy cooperation between the two countries. Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil and Afif Chelbi, Tunisian Minister of Industry ...
