In this paper, the author investigates the reasons for the rapid growth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Tunisia starting in the early 1970s, and its decline starting in the middle of the 1980s. Using the development of the textile industry as a model, the author hypothesizes that the...

The objective of this paper is to review the renewed interest in the economics of development and the emergence of new concepts in this area. Such concepts go beyond the Washington Consensus by introducing institutional and regulatory conventions in the study of underdeveloped societies....

The objective of this paper is to review the renewed interest in the economics of development and the emergence of new concepts in this area. Such concepts go beyond the Washington Consensus by introducing institutional and regulatory conventions in the study of underdeveloped societies....