The Tunisian government expects the economy to grow by 2.9% in 2018 and by 3.5% in 2019. Some 5.15 million tourists visited Tunisia from January to August, posting a 17.5% increase compared to the same period in 2017. Tunisia expects to receive eight million tourists for the first time in 2018, officials have said. Earlier this year, Marie-Francoise Marie Nelly, the World Bank Country Director for the Maghreb and Malta, predicted that Tunisia’s economy would grow by 2.5 per cent in 2018. As a reminder, Tunisia ranked sixth in the Arab world and 88 out of 190 economies in the world, according to the 2018 Doing Business report.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 30, 2018 13:52 UTC