Tunisia's policy framework for investment

This chapter analyses the investment policy and promotion of Tunisia. The new authorities have announced a number of measures aimed at improving the investment climate, including the revision of the legal framework which had become complex and had yielded fairly inconclusive results, the simplification of procedures, expropriation mechanisms of the old regime’s assets, development of PPPs, business linkages between local and foreign enterprises, and more-targeted FDI promotion. This chapter also analyses other aspects that are impacting upon investment operations, i.e. trade policy and facilitation efforts, competition policy of which effectiveness needs bolstering, and development of infrastructure and the financial sector – two stated priorities of the new Tunisian authorities.