While the world initially cheered Tunisia’s relative political - TopicsExpress

While the world initially cheered Tunisia’s relative political success, economic aid, trade, and private sector investment have been slow to follow. On the three-year anniversary of Ben Ali’s ouster, it is worth asking what the United States has done to help grow Tunisia’s economy and increase participation in the formal labor market. From the perspective of the Tunisian diaspora in the United States, the answer is that so far, good intentions have far exceeded concrete results.