Tunisia and the IMF

Tunisia

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Key Questions on Tunisia

Last Updated: April 10, 2020 ►

Resident Representative for Tunisia

Jerome Vacher

Resident Representative

Office Information

Address: Immeuble Dar El Khir, 2eme étage- Cite les Pins- Berges du Lac 2- 1053- Tunis, Tunisia
Contact: RR-TUN@imf.org

Jerome Vacher, Resident Representative

IMF Resident Representative in Tunisia since January 2019.
At the IMF since 2002, he has been IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine (2013-2017), senior economist on Turkey (2017-2018) and Spain (2010-2013). He has participated in IMF missions in more than twenty other countries.
Prior to the IMF, he worked at Dexia Crédit Local in Paris and at the French Embassy in Poland.
He is a graduate of Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany.

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Summary: Tunisia’s IMF-Supported Program

On April 10, within three weeks of the request, the IMF Executive Board approved emergency financing of US$745 million or two percent of GDP under its Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) to help the Tunisian authorities cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The IMF financing will support the authorities’ pro-active efforts to contain the spread of the virus and mitigate its human, social, and economic toll. The IMF resources will allow Tunisia to increase health spending, strengthen social safety nets for low-income families and the unemployed, and support small- and medium-sized firms hit by the crisis. The IMF financing will also help catalyze additional donor support.

Key Questions on Tunisia | Press Release

The last Article IV Executive Board Consultation was on March 23, 2018. Listed below are items related to Tunisia.