Mongi Boughzala

Although Egypt, Bahrain and Libya largely pushed Tunisia out of the media spotlight in February, the story from the cradle of 2011’s wave of revolt remains unfinished. Executive asked Tunisian economist Mongi Boughzala of the University of Tunis El Manar about some of the outstanding issues facing Tunisia and the region after the fall of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The poor economic situation facing many Tunisians was a driving force behind the revolution there. How do you see these conditions changing in the wake of the revolution? The economic situation and the unemployment and all of those issues cannot be resolved in a few days or even a few months. They are the outcome of years of bad economic management. [But] if we stabilize the country politically and really achieve democratic transition then there is a very good future for Tunisia.  Before the revolution, Tunisia had a reputation as being