and emerging economies using the example of Tunisia. This article is based on a thorough desk review and informal … interviews with TP entrepreneurs and managers in Tunisia. Setting up "ex-nihilo" ten TPs in Tunisia in the mid-1990s was a … the first Mediterranean country to enter in a free trade area with the EU in 1995, Tunisia needed to boost its …

information. This is important because training costs may be a major obstacle to intra-firm human capital accumulation in Tunisia …

Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …

inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …

Traditional poverty measures fail to indicate the degree of risk of becoming or remaining poor that households are … confronted to. They can therefore be misleading in the context of implementing poverty reduction policies. In this paper I … propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability to poverty, defined as the probability of being poor in the …