According to the 9th annual Global Retail Development Index (GRDI) study from management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region exhibits the most exciting retail growth opportunities today for international retailers ...
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved, on June 17th, two loans and a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support Tunisia’s development program, in particular the Northern ...
Despite a challenging international environment, Tunisia performed well economically in 2009 with real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth exceeding 3 percent, said an International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
The closing meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission in Tunisia was held on Tuesday in Tunis under chairmanship of Taoufik Baccar, Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia. The meeting, which is part of consultations provided for by the IMF regulations, focused ...
Thanks to its diversified and open economy, Tunisia has contained fallout of the global economic crisis and confirmed, one more time, its ability to resist external shocks, underlined the recent joint report of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Organisation for Economic ...
A Tunisian-Maltese Business Council was set up on Tuesday in Tunis, under an agreement signed by the Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA) and Malta's Chamber of Commerce, Enterprises and Industry ...
The Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA-Tunisia) under the patronage of the Ministry of Development and International Cooperation organizes the 12th edition of the Carthage Investment Forum, on the 3rd and 4th of June 2010, in Tunis ...
Tunisia's foreign exchanges have recovered their usual growth rate in the first four months of 2010; that this upward trend involves "almost all branches, according to Tunisian Trade and Handicrafts Minister Ridha Ben Mosbah." The minister, meeting the press, added that exports have posted, since early this ...
The Cabinet meeting was held, on Wednesday, under chairmanship of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali. At the opening of works, the meeting looked at a draft law providing for approval of the five-year Plan 2010-2014. This Plan, which represents a framework ...
The chairmen of employers' organisations, members of the Maghreb Employers' Union (MEU) expressed optimism at the future of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) even though this grouping's visibility may lack clarity, pointing to the need to create a positive economic Maghreb ...
Tunisia and the European Union have agreed to set up an ad hoc group to work on a roadmap to achieve an advanced status between the EU and Tunisia. The decision was made during the Tunisia-European Union (EU) Association Council's 8th session held on Tuesday in Brussels, under co-chairmanship of Foreign Minister Kamel Morjane ...
Orange and Investec, a Tunisian subsidiary of the Mabrouk group, have announced the launch of mobile, fixed and internet services by Orange Tunisia, making it the country’s first truly convergent telecoms operator. The partnership represents an important step forward for France Telecom-Orange – which holds 49% of the company – and its development in the Mediterranean and North Africa ...
