ABSTRACT
Tunisia is the eastern most of the three Maghreb countries formerly under French rule, and the most thoroughly Arabised among them. Discrimination between the two communities, national and alien, though never reaching the gross and glaring dimensions it reached in the other Maghreb countries, expressed itself in other social and economic forms. Tunisia is the only Arab country where transformation in the socio-economic system has occurred within the political system in existence and by the group effectively in power. Petroleum production is a new comer among the economic activities of Tunisia. The achieving of growth and development at a rate high enough to considerably improve the level of living of the Tunisians, which has been witnessed in 1971 and 1972, remains predicated on substantial foreign aid. The case of Tunisia reveals a milder form of maldistribution of income than that of Algeria. None the less it clearly shows the symptoms of colonialism.
