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Tunisia - Skills Development for Employment : The Role of Technical and Vocational Education and Training.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- World Bank Group.
- Series:
- Other Education Study.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Other Education Study
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor Market.
- Labor Markets.
- Public-Private Partnerships.
- Skills Development and Labor Force Training.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training.
- Vocational and Technical Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Labor Market.
- Labor Markets.
- Public-Private Partnerships.
- Skills Development and Labor Force Training.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training.
- Vocational and Technical Education.
- Other Title:
- Tunisia – Skills Development for Employment
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2020.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Tunisia is expected to enter a recession in 2020 as a result of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the slowdown in production due to no demand, and decline in tourism. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaged only 1.8 percent per year in 2011-2018 compared to 4 percent in 2001-2005 and 4.5 percent in 2006-2010. Despite a good performance of tradable services, growth slowed down from 2.7 percent in 2018 to 1 percent in 2019. 1 This slowdown may be attributed to several factors, including the death of President Essebsi, presidential and parliamentary elections, a drop in industrial production, and fall in agricultural growth. The World Bank estimates that Tunisia's potential GDP growth has dropped by 2 to 2.5 percentage points in the past 15 years due to declining physical and human capital, persistently low productivity, and lower competitiveness. The COVID-19 crisis will exacerbate Tunisia's growth challenges in the short and possibly medium term. A Government of Tunisia (GoT) and World Bank study estimates that a month-long lockdown would reduce growth by 0.9 percentage points in 2020.2 According to the same study, two to three months of lockdown would adversely affect the highly exposed export-oriented sectors (mechanical and electrical products, and textiles), services (tourism, commerce), and transport sectors and reduce growth by at least 4 percentage points in 2020. These negative growth effects will be accentuated by a projected sharp decline in investment, domestic demand, and productivity as the crisis lengthens.
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