Is Tunisia trade policy pro-poor

Tunisia - 1 December 2018

Trade topics: Trade Policy

The 2015 joint report emphasized that the greatest impact on poverty reduction will come from a coherent and multi-pronged approach that addresses these specific constraints. To this end, the report discussed policy actions that governments can take individually and collectively to maximize the gains from trade for the poor: (i) Lowering trade costs for deeper integration of markets, tackling policy and infrastructure barriers to goods and services trade are critical to growth and poverty reduction; (ii) Improving the enabling environment including policies related to human and physical capital, access to finance, governance and institutions, and macroeconomic stability; (iii) Intensifying the poverty impact of integration policies by bringing a greater focus on tackling remoteness from markets at the sub-national level, and facilitating the activities of poor and small traders; (iv) Managing and mitigating risks faced by the poor that limit them from benefiting from trade opportunities when they arise and build poor people’s resilience to the effects of adverse events; and (v) Improving data and analysis to inform policy to better understand the trade-related constraints that the poor in many countries continue to face including through the use of new technologies for data generation and analysis, including big data.

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