Tunisia and Economic Growth assignment
The theme of this assignment is clearly linked to the topic of HDR 1996. Discussing the framework adopted by that report could represent a useful starting point for the planning process of your team work. You might also find that making a schedule of what you would like to prepare and when might help you planning your team assignment as well as coordinating it with your individual assignments.
Note that a special challenge of this report is to reflect on the kind of growth strategy that is taking place in the country, contrast it with what is happening in the region and discuss ways in which foreseeable developments are likely to affect its evolution.
The materials provided should enable you to gather information on the general situation of the country, as well as on the more specific economic growth and HD issues with which the assignment is concerned. The selection of materials covered does not aim however at being exhaustive, rather at providing you with pointers on the kind of issues discussed, the kind of actors involved, the processes taking place in the country.
After our preliminary discussion of an outline in the second week of the course you will also have access to a paper, used as background material for HDR 1996, which could be the equivalent of a paper commissioned to an external consultant. You might decide to adopt its view or not, and you need to extend its particular take on the subject to fit your own.
You might use any other source of information from global reports and materials available in the reference unit to web resources to enrich your understanding of the different issues you chose to tackle. Remember also that you can do a search on ELDIS at http://www.eldis.org/ if you need more inspiration! Some possibly interesting web sites are listed below. You might also want to visit QEH library.
Please remember however to time your efforts appropriately. It is more important to deliver all the output you are required, even if based on a narrow informational basis whose shortfalls you might want to point to, than to collect vast amounts of new materials which you will not have the time to process.
Tunisia: some ideas of links on the web:
http://www.worldbank.org/gender/info/tunisia.html
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/safety/design/choosing2p20.htm
http://www.wri.org/wr-98-99/sanitatn.htm
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/govlab/legrel/tc/epz/index.htm
