Economic Reforms and Transformation of the Role of the State. The Case of Tunisia

During the 1970s Tunisia experienced an economic growth averaging 7.5 per cent per annum, accompanied by an important change in its economic structure. This economic progress, which was largely realised due to a financial equilibrium created by the huge increases in petrol and phosphate prices from 1973, caused a diversification of production and reinforced private industrial enterprise which until then had been dominated by the public sector.