Tunisian banks are due to release soon their financial statements and therefore 2008 key figures following the hard and tedious work aiming at closing accounts of December,31 2008. Although provisionally released pending the auditors’ reports, appreciation and creation of funding ...
Tunisia's economic freedom score is 58, making its economy the 98th freest among 179 countries in the 2009 Index. Its overall score is around the world average, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Heritage Foundation (HF) 2009 index of Economic freedom. ...
The dream goes back to the independence of the main components of this entity, yet theoretical, which is the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU). Aimed initially but without success, at uniting peoples, the desire of unification was then diverted to the economic unity. Efforts have achieve that goal ...
A new report finds that doing business is becoming easier in the Arab world. Doing Business in the Arab World 2009 examines the business regulatory environment of 20 Arab economies within the Middle East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. In the past year (June 2007 to June 2008) ...
Does the vagueness that so far marred the prospects of the Tunisian tourism finally fade away? More evidence would tend to confirm this new trend. Some European markets are disclosing the consuming trends amid the international crisis. According to some French media, for example ...
Despite the global economic crisis, Tunisia continues to attract foreign investors. Arab investors who are behind some of the countrys mega projects have pledged to honor their commitments, said Mr Foued Daghfous , first Advisor to the President of the Republic and the head of the high commission ...
The Mediterranean investment projects observatory (MIPO) released a study providing an overview of FDI in the Mediterranean countries for the years 2007-2008, including the main Maghreb countries, namely Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
In a recent note on the economic environment, we read that "there is a slowdown in registrations of cars in the domestic market since mid-2007, due to credit conditions. According to this note, the number of registrations in Tunisia had reached its peak in early 2004 with the launching ...
Tunisian economic forecasters are not optimistic about the year 2009. In a recent note on the economic environment, it was stated that "the year 2009 looks very difficult for foreign trade and industrial structure that underlies it." The document made it clear that «Tunisian exports whose two main engines ...
The fight against rising prices is providing rather good news echoed by the Minister of Commerce and Handicrafts, Ridha Touiti who briefed, on Wednesday, medias on the domestic market and foreign trade in addition to many other topics, such as services, consumption, distribution network ...
Forecast to generate $5bn in revenues by 2013*, and already accounting for 70% of new mobile payments initiatives announced in the last 6 months*, Mobile Money Transfer has become a strategic necessity in the battle for market share as mobile phone penetration in Africa ...
Market juicy but unknown, that of the United Nations amounts to billions of dollars per year. In 2007, the volume of purchases of the international organization has reached over 11 billion USD.This development reflects the dramatic expansion of United Nations interventions. Indeed, ...
