There is broad consensus that job creation and productive employment are key to building a vibrant, inclusive economy. The digital era holds potential to expand employment opportunities, especially in Africa, where unemployment is high and economic…
We use unique enterprise survey data to explore the export behavior of firms in Tunisia, a small, trade-dependent country with a complex policy environment regarding exporting. Firms may export directly or indirectly through intermediaries, and can…
This paper examines whether government spending and governance have a nonlinear relationship with economic growth. The study determines the threshold effect of the institutional quality on the relationship between public expenditure and economic…
This paper analyzes the nonlinear effect of trade openness on economic growth over a sample of developed and developing countries during the period 1980–2020. Using a Dynamic Panel Threshold Model advanced by Seo and Shin (2016), and Seo et al., (…
The increasing trend of the inclusion of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment concerns in the negotiation of trade agreements creates a need to strengthen informed dialogue between the public and private sectors. Trade negotiators are…
This paper examines the association between high-growth firm status and global linkages with special focus on the role of imports. We rely on a rich panel data covering all formal firms in Tunisia between 1999 and 2015. Our results show that firms…
La numérisation avancée de nos économies favorise le capital par rapport au travail et le travail qualifié par rapport au travail non qualifié. Sachant que le niveau de capital humain des pays de l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (…
Considered as the main source of economic growth in the United States of America and other northern countries, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are seen as a key factor that can boost Africa’s development. They have proved to be…
Considérées comme une variable exogène assimilable à une manne tombée du ciel (Schumpeter, 1913), les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) sont devenues progressivement indispensables dans le système de production (Baldwin et…
The governments of South Africa and Tunisia launched a bilateral research project under the auspices of the ‘South Africa-Tunisia Science and Technology Collaboration’ initiative. The research project is aimed at identifying realistic and…