Tunisie: Comprendre les Raisons d’un Developpement Socioeconomique Reussi (Operations Evaluation Studies) (Independent Evaluation Group Studies) (French Edition)

This Country Assistance Evaluation was prepared in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank. Tunisia has successfully shifted from resource-based exports dominated by oil and gas to manufactures and services. Real GDP growth has been consistently rising and Tunisians today enjoy more than two-and-a-half times the real incomes that their parents had thirty years ago. Rapid growth made possible a remarkable improvement in social indicators and a decline in the poverty rate from 40 percent in 1970 to 4 percent in 2000; with the remaining poverty predominately rural.