Microblogging through Twitter has made information short and to the point, and more importantly systematically searchable. This work is the first of a series in which quotidian observations about Tunisia are obtained using the microblogging site Twitter. Data were extracted using the open-source Twitter API v1.1. Specific tweets were obtained using functional search operators in particular thematic hashtags, geolocation, date, time, and language. The presence of Tunisia in the international tweet stream, the language of communication of Tunisian residents through Twitter as well as Twitter usage across Tunisia is the center of attention of this article.

 

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Written by: Meriem BenSalah Akin

Category: Research Paper

Published: 12 December 2013

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This article studies Tunisia’s economic performance in the world stage during the last 50 years. I describe various historical weaknesses and provide policy recommendations in order to alleviate hurdles, break the cycle of chronic mediocrity, and insure the brighter future I believe we are capable of achieving as a nation. I show that Tunisia’s share of world GDP has not changed in the last 50 years, leading to what I refer to as “the Lost Five Decades.”The Tunisian dinar (TND) has been continuously devaluating during this period reducing the purchasing power of every Tunisian.

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Written by: Dr. Wady Haddaji

Category: Research Paper

Published: 12 December 2013

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This research reviews relevant studies and reports about labor productivity in Tunisia, proposes an overview of issues influencing its efficiency and offers solutions to enhance it. Besides, this research compares some labor productivity metrics in Tunisia and other countries in order to uncover interesting patterns in the past years and suggest explanations to these patterns.

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Written by: Dr. Nawel Amrouche

Category: Research Paper

Published: 12 December 2013

Read more: Labor Productivity in Tunisia: Analysis of Issues and Solutions

The latest popular uprising in Tunisia has very often been described as the result of a distorted labor market that has not been able to absorb the growing flow of young and educated labor force. While this description does provide useful insights into the roots of the Tunisian revolution, one must not overlook the other macroeconomic factors that had, over time, fueled the popular discontent. The increasing cost of living had aggravated the vulnerability of large segments of the population that felt totally marginalized by the system in place. Very few researchers had attempted to explore the underlying factors that influence the dynamics of the inflation rate movements in Tunisia. In this note, we follow the recent strand of research by applying a Structural Vector Autoregressive model (SVAR) to shed some light on some of the channels, both contemporaneous and lagged ones, through which shocks to macroeconomic variables influence the inflation rate dynamics in Tunisia.

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Written by: Bechir Bouzid

Category: Research Paper

Published: 02 December 2013

Read more: Modeling the Inflation Rate Dynamics in Tunisia: A Structural VAR approach

Le 7/11/2012, après deux ans de campagne et plus de quatre trillions de dollars dépensés, le peuple américain s’est réveillé avec un président démocrate réélu, et une chambre au sénat démocrate et une chambre des députés (congress) républicain, exactement comme le matin du 6 novembre. Cette défaite annoncée de Mitt Romney est toutefois remarquable par sa magnitude car Barack Obama a remporte 8 des 9 swing states et gagnerait le vote électoral par 332 contre 203 pour Mitt Romney.
Les accusations internes déjà font rage parmi les républicains mais je pense que fondamentalement 7 facteurs expliquent cette déroute républicaine.

 

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Written by: Moez Hababou

Category: Research Paper

Published: 12 July 2012