dc.contributor.author | Houerbi, Salma | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Tunisia | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-07T13:13:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-07T13:13:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Houerbi, S. (2020) 'Can Tunisia Shake Off “Business as Usual” Following Covid-19?', Poicy Brief, Arab Reform Initiative | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17035 | |
dc.description.abstract | The consequences of Covid-19 on Tunisia’s already fragile economy are bound to exacerbate existing social tensions. The government has rolled out a series of socio-economic measures to support individual entrepreneurs and businesses to maintain jobs and incomes across all sectors. This paper argues that the government’s support to the private sector represents a golden opportunity to rectify longstanding problems in state-business relations and institute a culture of corporate accountability. But to do so, the government should place the Covid-19 response within a broader effort to address the persistent and systemic challenges the country faces from corruption to rent-seeking to vulnerable workers’ conditions.
Almost a decade after Tunisia’s revolution, rampant inequalities and corruption continue to plague the country as it struggles to implement needed socio-economic measures to respond to aspirations for more social justice. This has caused disenchantment with the new political elite and a rise of populism that risks endangering the democratic gains achieved so far. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Arab Reform Initiative | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Health | en |
dc.title | Can Tunisia Shake Off “Business as Usual” Following Covid-19? | en |
dc.type | Other | en |
dc.rights.holder | © 2020 by the Arab Reform Initiative | en |
dc.identifier.externaluri | https://arabsocialprotectionhub.net/en/2020/05/20/can-tunisia-shake-off-business-as-usual-following-covid-19/ | en |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |