Solidarity with Ghar Wenkel Children 2013/2014
Many children in Tunisia drop out of school at a very young age because of the lack of resources, low income and poor school transportation. According to statistics from the Ministry of Education of Tunisia, 40% of local schools are rural schools. School children aged 6 to 12 years are forced to walk daily on average 1 to 9 miles. Annually, a staggering 70,000 pupils drop out of school due to many factors (e.g., poverty, family issues, long way to travel, difficult geographic conditions, ignorance of school value, non-availability of public transportation, etc.). In 2012 alone, 100,000 pupils dropped out of school across the country mainly in the disadvantaged areas. Ghar Wenkel School (Bizerte) is among many rural schools in Tunisia that did not get the attention it deserved from the government for improvement.
TUN-SEI (NEW Monthly Index of the State of the Economy in Tunisia)
(20/05/2013)
The Tun-Sei index is a new index developed exclusively in-house and published every month by TUNESS Research Team to provide the latest update on the state of the economy in Tunisia. This Index is constructed based on highly relevant (seasonally adjusted) economic indicators (i.e., Industrial Production, Exports, Bank Loans and International Reserves). This is the first attempt to construct a composite index of the state of the economy in Tunisia which could be used to signal any turning point (e.g., peaks and troughs) in the business cycle. The identified four benchmark indicators used in the model provide valuable information about the current position of the economic activity within the business cycles in Tunisia. The selected indicators cover real sector, financial sector, trade sector and foreign exchange market.