Micro-economic perspectives on Tunisia's agro-export strategy

Abstract

This paper reviews Tunisia's movement to an agricultural export strategy as a method of creating rural economic growth. Having explained the economic logic and pitfalls of agro-export production, it then evaluates the Tunisian effort to develop an agricultural export industry first in general and then using a specific case study of strawberry adoption in Cap Bon. Results show that Tunisia has been successful in increasing agro-export production, though as yet not in using it to create equitable rural growth.

Citation

Foltz, J.D. (2003), "Micro-economic perspectives on Tunisia's agro-export strategy", Food, Agriculture, and Economic Policy in the Middle East and North Africa (Research in Middle East Economics, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 209-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1094-5334(03)05013-1