COVID-19 in Tunisia: A week of confinement costs 1% of GDP (Kapitalis)  

Kapitalis (Tunisia) reported on the economic toll COVID-19 lockdowns have had on Tunisia. The article discusses an IFPRI policy note that states the empirical data used are very credible since it comes from the Tunisian Institute for Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies (ITCEQ). The authors used simulation techniques at the cutting edge of econometric methods. Weeks of confinement in Tunisia struck a real hammer at an economy already poorly developed, and which did not need another test related to wall-to-wall confinement, without modulation and piloted on sight, without ex-ante impact studies. Also published in Maghreb Arab Press, Map Express (Morocco), Webmanagercenter.com (Tunisia).