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The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
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Morocco and Tunisia have both achieved robust economic growth over the last 30 years by utilizing prudent economic … Morocco and Tunisia have transformed both from economically challenged debt-burdened nations into technologically advanced … Tunisia one of 5.1%. To put that in perspective, the World as-a-whole has grown at 2.0% per year and the United States at 1 …
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manufacturing firms in Tunisia using a stochastic frontierproduction model applied to cross-section data. Results indicate that … maximum 99.5% with an average technical efficiency estimateof 86.5%. This implies olive oil manufacturing firms in Tunisia can … modernization programmeimplemented in Tunisia. The estimated coefficients in the technical inefficiency effectsmodel indicate that …
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evidence of inefficient use of energy in Tunisia, since environmental pressure tends to rise faster than economic growth … mutual causality in the long-run implying that Tunisia is an energy dependent economy.From a policy perspective, policy … makers in Tunisia should be mindful that a persistent decline in environmental quality may exert negative externalities to …
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For the past two decades, Tunisia has been undertaken important structural reforms,which call in most cases for market …
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Tunisia, since environmentalpressure tends to rise faster than economic growth. In theshort run, results support the argument … response do notconfirm the hypothesis that an increase in pollution levelinduces economic expansion. Although Tunisia has …
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Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models have gained continuously in popularity as an empirical tool for assessing the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty and income distribution. Conventional models ignore however the channels linking technical change in...
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In this paper we aim to measure and to explain the frontier total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Tunisia over the …
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Capital account liberalization and exchange rate regime choice, what scope for flexibility in Tunisia? This study … model framework, Tunisia’s exchange rate regime choice is cast in terms of strategic interactions between the monetary …
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Africanmanufacturedextruders to Tunisia. Against the background of the importance of export growth, thetypes of information that exporters use and …Export-led growth is important for a number of reasons. At a macro-economic level, it can createprofit, allowing a … country to balance its finances and manage its debt. Export-led growth can alsolead to higher productivity and job creation …
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