“The Tunisian Administrators Institute (l’Institut Tunisien des Administrateurs (ITA)) that was launched during May 2009 by a group of administrators, in some private companies auditors and academics, in order to establish good governance within the Tunisian public and private companies, was the focal point of a meeting held on Monday in Tunis ...
Tunisia has been classified 1st in the Maghreb and North Africa, and 61st worldwide, by the latest report of the World Bank (WB) on global trade logistics entitled, "Connecting to Compete 2010: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy" or "Connecting to Compete." ...
President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali conferred, late on Thursday morning, with Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi who announced at the end of the meeting that the President of the Republic had decided a cabinet reshuffle by virtue of which he appointed Messrs. and Mrs ...
Tunisia has been ranked, for the second consecutive year, on the top of Arab countries in matters of quality of life by the “International Living Magazine” in its rating involving 194 countries. With a score of 59 points out of 100 and an improvement of three points compared with last ...
Trade and Handicrafts Minister voiced optimism at indices of the external trade, particularly those of exports. Preliminary figures show a rise of 23.8% recorded by exports in December 2009 compared with the same period of 2008. The minister, who was holding news conference ...
A Global market for jobs and workers is developing rapidly: The internationalization of the production of goods and services, reduced communications and transportation costs, and global demographic developments will lead to higher international mobility of labor and jobs in the coming decades, said a World Bank Report on “ Shaping the Future ...
Telecoms sector in Tunisia braced for change as France Telecom plans to start operations and government plans privatisation drive, according to new report from Onda Analytics. The Tunisian telecoms market appears to be set for a major shake-up in 2010, with France Telecom due to start fixed ...
Al Baraka Bank Tunisia has launched its new unified corporate identity. In accordance with new identity, the name of the bank has been changed from Bank Et-tamweel Al-Tunisi Al-Saudi to Al Baraka Bank Tunisia. This is in line with the strategy being implemented by the Bahrain-based Al Baraka ...
The year 2009 experienced the worst world financial and economic crisis since World War II. Tunisia, unlike the overwhelming majority of the world countries, managed not only to create wealth but also to strengthen its capacity to withstand the exogenous shocks. This performance is recognized internationally ...
Although affected by the current crisis, Tunisia has weathered its impact relatively well so far. Real GDP growth slowed down from an average of 4.6 percent in 2008 to 0.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009, reflecting mainly a fall in exports
Tunisian tourism has kept its momentum after a year of financial and economic crisis while Tunisia is one of the very few countries that have managed to preserve their tourist yield, Minister of Tourism Khelil Lajimi said when addressing journalists at a news conference in Tunis. ...
Two key developments have just marked the implementation of Tunis Financial Harbour project: the signing of the contract of sale of the plot of land dedicated to the construction of the project infrastructure and the choice of two Tunisian consulting firms among large international firms. Both announcements were made by Issam Jenahi, ...
