Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Africa's Economic Growth Depends First of All on Good Economic Policy, Not on Foreign Aid
- Part One The Conceptual Fundamentals of a Systemic Economic Policy for Africa's Revival
- Part Two Goals and Instruments for a Systemic Economic Policy for Africa's Revival
- Part Three Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for African Economic Policy
- Part Four Foreign Aid and African Economic Policy
- Part Five Some Successful Experiences of Economic Policy in Africa and Beyond
- Chapter Fourteen A Successful Economic Policy Experience in Africa: Economic Policy in Tunisia
- Chapter Fifteen Post-Apartheid South Africa's Economic Policy: Lessons from a Successful Experience
- Chapter Sixteen Some Economic Policy Experiences in Developed and Emerging Countries
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter Fourteen - A Successful Economic Policy Experience in Africa: Economic Policy in Tunisia
from Part Five - Some Successful Experiences of Economic Policy in Africa and Beyond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Africa's Economic Growth Depends First of All on Good Economic Policy, Not on Foreign Aid
- Part One The Conceptual Fundamentals of a Systemic Economic Policy for Africa's Revival
- Part Two Goals and Instruments for a Systemic Economic Policy for Africa's Revival
- Part Three Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for African Economic Policy
- Part Four Foreign Aid and African Economic Policy
- Part Five Some Successful Experiences of Economic Policy in Africa and Beyond
- Chapter Fourteen A Successful Economic Policy Experience in Africa: Economic Policy in Tunisia
- Chapter Fifteen Post-Apartheid South Africa's Economic Policy: Lessons from a Successful Experience
- Chapter Sixteen Some Economic Policy Experiences in Developed and Emerging Countries
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
“Tunisia had long been portrayed as an economic success story in the region. […] The social unrest and political turmoil that engulfed Tunisia in January [2011] indicated that despite the country's comparative economic success, key social and development challenges had not been addressed.”
Towards a New Economic Model for Tunisia (joint report by the African Development Bank, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Tunisian government and USAID, 2012)“Promoting employment and improving upon revenue will be an absolute priority in conformity with the orientations of the 11th Plan. […] Accelerating the growth rate will constitute a primordial goal of the next five-year development plan expressing the political wish to concretize the priority reserved for employment. […] Tunisia aspires, with the favor of experiences acquired, to take up the challenges both internally and externally in order to meet the pack of developed countries. Among these challenges, employment will occupy the first position.”
Republic of Tunisia, 11th Development Plan 2007–11Introduction
On December 17, 2010, in Sidi Bouzid, a town of about forty thousand inhabitants, located 300 km south of Tunis, Mohammed Bouazizi, a young, 26-year-old Tunisian, selling fruit on the streets of this city usually known to be calm – an activity he performed, like many other young Tunisians, for lack of a better job – set himself on fire after a quarrel with the police.
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- Africa and Economic PolicySpeculation and Risk Management on the Fringes of Empire, pp. 239 - 258Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2014