Banking in Tunisia
Tunisia is known for economic and political stability, its highly educated workforce, while Islamic radicalism is weak. Tunisia does not have the resource curse of oil or mineral deposits that often determine instability. From 2000 to 2009, Tunisia grew at an annual rate of 5.2% and its per capita income of about $8,300 (in PPP terms) in 2009 was second only to Lebanon among the oil-importing MENA countries. The stability of the Tunisian Dinar and historically low inflation in Tunisia are positive indicators for its potential development of financial services. Inflation was 4.9% in FY 2007-08 and 3.5% in FY 2008-09. The Tunisian Dinar was less volatile in 2000-2010 than the currencies of its oil-importing neighbors, Egypt and Morocco.
Human rights in Tunisia
In January of 2018, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed publicly supported the creation of a draft to criminalize racism by adding to Article 21, 25, 47 or creating an entirely new law. Several events prior to this announcement pushed the Prime Minister to support the cause. Civil rights activist credit a girl name Sabrina for starting the talk about the creation of the law. In early 2016, Sabrina was verbally abused with racial insults on the street and reported the incident to the police. However, because of the lack of laws prohibiting it, the police could do nothing about it. . The event did little more than spark interest but on Christmas Eve 2016 a racial knife attack on three black students in a train station which left them all wounded provided more reason for people to demand a law from the government . The drafting of the law started shortly after. On October 9, 2018, Tunias’s Parlement passed a law called “Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination” Act. Under the new law, discrimination is described as "any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, ancestry" or other discrimination that lead to "disturbances, an obstruction or privation." Breaking the law can result in a fine up to 1000 dollar fine and up to three years in prison. Messaoud Romdhani, head of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, compared the passing of the law equivalent in value to the abolition of slavery in improving the country and daily lives of its citizens.