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  • Unlocking Tunisia’s unexploited export potential

    The European Union (EU) has long been Tunisia’s leading trade partner. Bilateral trade increased sharply after Tunisia and the EU signed an Association Agreement in 1995 aimed at creating a free trade area for goods, excluding agricultural and fishery products. Between 2013 and 2017, four EU countries – France, Italy, Germany and Spain – received 60% of Tunisia’s …

    Read more from the source : European Centre for Development Policy Management

     

     

     

     

    Tags : Tunisia, economy, export, African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA,

  • Morocco faces risk of another drought season

    CASABLANCA – Unusually high temperatures across Morocco and a lack of rain are pressuring the country, which is heading towards a second successive drought season that is expected to affect 2020 economic growth…

    Read more from the source : The Arab Weekly

     

     

     

    Tags : Morocco, drought, economy,

  • The taming of youth activism in Tunisia and the Global South

    My presentation to the Political Economy, Knowledge, Solidarity, Liberation: From Asia to Africa workshop in Tunis provided an ethnography of the neoliberal ‘capacity building’ workshop, focusing on the way in which a narrowly conceived…

    Read more from the source : Review of Africain political economy

     

     

     

    Tags : Tunisia, youth, economy,

  • Tunisia: Post-Election Poll Shows Bump in Optimism but Continued Distrust of Government

    The International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Center for Insights in Survey Research (CISR) nationwide poll of Tunisia reveals a relative increase in optimism for the country’s future and improved faith in the democratic process. However, the survey also reveals persistent distrust of the government’s management of the economy and response to corruption. This is …

    Read more from the source : International Republican Institute

     

     

     

     

    Tags : Tunisia, democracy, economy, corruption,

  • Morocco’s infrastructural investment gap is hitting rural areas hardest

    As Africa’s sixth-largest economy, with a GDP per capita of just over $3,000, Morocco is certainly no economic minnow. Although growth has slowed of late, it measured a healthy 2.95 percent across 2018 and inflation remains low. But there is still work to do – particularly in terms of the country’s infrastructural development. According to the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), in the years leading up to 2040, Morocco is set to face an infrastructural investment gap of $37bn.

    Read more from the source : World finance

     

     

     

     

    Tags : Morocco, economy, finance, infrastructural investment,