| dc.creator |
Houerbi, Salma |
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| dc.date |
2022-01-07T13:13:30Z |
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| dc.date |
2022-01-07T13:13:30Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-05-20 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-26T08:51:30Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-26T08:51:30Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Houerbi, S. (2020) 'Can Tunisia Shake Off “Business as Usual” Following Covid-19?', Poicy Brief, Arab Reform Initiative |
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| dc.identifier |
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17035 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://arabsocialprotectionhub.net/en/2020/05/20/can-tunisia-shake-off-business-as-usual-following-covid-19/ |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198852 |
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| dc.description |
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. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Arab Reform Initiative |
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| dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
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| dc.rights |
© 2020 by the Arab Reform Initiative |
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| dc.subject |
Health |
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| dc.title |
Can Tunisia Shake Off “Business as Usual” Following Covid-19? |
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| dc.type |
Other |
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| dc.coverage |
Tunisia |
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