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 ...
“Tunisian tourism is seen today as a success story”, said Taleb Rifai the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) During a press conference in Tunis, adding that in these times of crisis Mediterranean, Arab and African destinations can be successful in 2009 if they open up their skies by adhering ...
The effect of the international economic crisis on Tunisia is widening and the country is still obliged to revise its forecasts, to readjust them and to manage the economic difficulties before our very eyes, to keep on getting by and secure an economic growth, always positive. That is the purpose of the new additional finance act passed on Thursday ...
Tunisia is ranked 15th in the 2008 Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), along with Egypt, Algeria, Mexico and Latvia. North Africa has three countries in the top 15 rankings this year. They are, on average, projected ...
Tunisia has kept a relatively favourable position in the face of the global economic and financial crisis, the most serious one in the last 60 years, said Joel Toujas-Bernaté, head of the Middle East and Central Asia Department and head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission in Tunisia. ...
