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This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) looks at the effectiveness of World Bank assistance since 1990 from three perspectives: an analysis of the Bank’s assistance program, the Bank’s development impact, and the contribution of the Bank and its development partners...Read More

This research seeks to evaluate the effects of growth and inequality on the dynamics of poverty in Tunisia from 1985 to 2005. To achieve this aim, two types of analyses are discussed. First, we proceed with the decomposition of changes in poverty into contribution of...Read More

The main aim of this report is to institute a new official method for measuring poverty in Tunisia that would reflect population growth and scientific progress as well as better enhance the data collected. It details the various stages involved in the establishment of...Read More

This paper investigates the association between gender and poverty in Tunisia based upon an empirical analysis of 1990 and 2000 household surveys. It also tests whether there is a widespread feminization of poverty. Read More

The effects of trade liberalization on poverty in Tunisia are examined, using a layered dynamic CGE-micro-simulation approach. A dynamic CGE model endogenously generates the evolution of prices, as well as income paths under protection and freer trade assumptions for...Read More

The aim of this paper is to use some new spatial statistical tools for analyzing the determinants of welfare and poverty in Tunisia Read More

The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of Tunisia’s trade reforms over the last four decades on its CO2 emissions by taking into account not only the direct effect of trade on emissions, but also its indirect effect through growth. Using cointegration...Read More

The study tries to answer the following questions: Will exposure to world agriculture prices generate more poverty or less? To what extent will households be affected by changes in agricultural trade policies? Do multilateral agricultural liberalization matter more...Read More

This Development Policy Review (DPR) provides a discussion of the key issues and challenges that are involved in achieving this goal. Towards this end, it discusses trade integration, innovation policies and enabling environment reforms (macro stability, economic...Read More

Chapter 1 takes stock of the integration policies implemented since the early 1970s and assessed their impact on FDI, exports and employment. Chapter 2 looks at today’s major challenges in the manufacturing sector and the specific policies needed to address them....Read More