At a time when many UK manufacturers are considering moving production back to the motherland, other nations are leveraging their proximity to the growing markets of North Africa to find a cheap, and skilled, workforce and international knowhow. A model of “semi-relocation” seems to be prevalent here. Roberto Priolo reports from Tunis.
Speak to businessmen in Tunisia and you would swear the Revolution of 2010-2011 didn’t even happen. The demonstrations that eventually overthrew President Ben Ali and that represented the spark that ignited a wave of protests across the Arab world, the so-called Arab Spring, caused very little trouble to organisations operating in the nation. Some of…
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