"We will not continue to grant aid to needy families. On the contrary, efforts will now focus on promoting entrepreneurship by easing access to microcredit for those in need to create their own projects." ...
Bukhatir Group will pursue its mega project of the Sports City in the “Berges du Lac.” The announcement was made by the Group President, Mohamed Abdel Rahman Bukhatir, in an interview with African Manager, reiterating the UAE’s willingness to contribute to the realization of investment projects in Tunisia and to ...
The trade deficit declined, in the first half of the current year, by 19.9% or 854.4 MTD, reaching 3,588.8 MTD compared with 4,446.2 MTD in the first half of 2010, according to indications provided by Director of the Foreign Trade Observatory Lotfi Kthir ...
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) reached 775.3 million Tunisian dinars (MTD) in the first half year of 2011 compared with 936.6 MTD in the same period of last year, down 17.2 %. ...
At the time when a professional discussion on the rate of poverty in Tunisia is still ongoing, the INS (Institute of Statistics) has just finished the latest census of the population (May 2010 ...
"The national economy has gone beyond the dangerous phase" that prevailed during the first quarter of 2011, marked by a negative growth rate of -3.3% The expected decline in the second quarter will be less cruel, but no greater than Zero pc, said Mustapha Kamel Nabli, Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT). ...
Confiscation is the new word that emerged following the flight of ousted President Ben Ali since January 14, 2011. The decision to confiscate could have been the starting point to bring Tunisia to safe heaven through the residues of a corrupt system to the bone ...
foreign direct investment (FDI) figures in the first 5 months 2011 have just come out. FDIs have reached 579.8 MTD at the end of the first five months, against 763.9 MTD in the same period of 2010, i.e. a fall of about 24.1%. ...
Attracting Tunisians living abroad by encouraging them to create their own projects is an essential condition to enable Tunisia to improve its ability to overcome the difficulties the economy is going through. ...
There is a close and twin causality between political stability and mobilization of foreign direct investment. These are two terms of an equation viscerally linked to one another. And in every way, investors will never inject their money where crises, revolts, strikes, sit-ins and anticipated protests of elections ...
Tunisian exports went up by 13.9% in the first five months of 2011, reaching a value of 10,610.7 million dinars (MTD), compared with 9,315 MTD during the same period of 2010. ...
The 33 new foreign companies that started production after the Revolution of January 14 and the expansion of 65 companies already in place are strong evidences that companies have not lost confidence in Tunisia," ...
