Exponential, there would be little more than a suitable term to describe the plummeting growth rate for the year 2015. From 3% at the start, it tumbled steadily to 0.5%, as announced by Finance Minister Slim Chaker at a press conference held on Thursday to present the draft supplementary
Under the effect of a succession of economic, security, social and other developments, the GDP growth rate in Tunisia has constantly tumbling and is now reduced from 3% at the outset to a hopeless 1% now for the year 2015. Forecasters do not exclude that this rate plummets to zero
Information on the installation of a US military base in the region of Haouaria in Tunisia has consistently raised great controversy and sparked the anger of the Tunisians who are categorically opposed to the installation of such projects in Tunisia.
Tunisia has been ranked the 96th poorest country in the world out of 150, according to an index developed by US magazine Global Finance, which ranks 184 countries in the world, from poorest
"Given the way it runs the country, the government of Habib Essid gives the impression that it is a caretaker government,” President of the Finance Committee of the Assembly of People's Representatives (ARP), Slim Besbes told AfricanManager on Thursday, July 16, criticizing the absence ...
Seifeddine Rezgui, Sousse attacker, who had killed 38 including 30 Britons, was trained in the same terror camp as “Jihadi John.”
Rezgui, 23, who was shot dead after his horrific attack on a hotel in the resort of Sousse last month, was trained in an Islamic ...
On the day the attack was perpetrated the Sousse attack that left 38 dead and more than forty injured, it made sense to add a 39th victim, tourism, which was already struggling to recover from an equally devastating impact of another attack, namely the Bardo Museum’s, received a hard blow. ...
Tunisians, who have been trained with killers in the terrorist training camp of the Islamic State (IS) in the south of Libya, are planning more attacks, says the British newspaper Daily Mail on its Thursday July 2 issue. ...
The World Bank (WB) released at a press conference in Tunis its report entitled "Political Connections and Tariff Evasion: evidence from Tunisia." It shows that tariff evasion has increased after the Revolution for all companies ...
During the four years following the Revolution, the leasing sector has stalled amid slowing economy, rising cost of resources and rising defaults, marking a break with its "glorious years" (2006-2010), according to a study by broker, “Tunisie Valeurs” on the Tunisian leasing sector ...
The World Bank (WB) released, Wednesday, June 10, 2015, its Global Economic Prospects (GEP) 2015, foreseeing a growth rate of 2.6% for Tunisia this year, 3.4% in 2016 and 4.5% in 2017. This projection is strongly rejected by Tunisian ...
No sooner had the flow of French tourists recorded an upturn in early 2015, than it greatly suffered from the attack at the Bardo Museum. More, there seems to be no or little recovery in early June as evidenced by a survey conducted in ...