Tunisia: Statistical Annex
March 14, 1995
Summary
This paper summarizes the economic progress achieved by Tunisia during the first half of the 1990s. The paper highlights the main changes including the adoption of a new banking law, the introduction of an interbank foreign exchange market, the issuance of negotiable treasury bills, and the revision of the stock market law. The paper discusses the new banking law, passed in February 1994, to strengthen banks’ role in the economy. The law introduces “universal banking” and permits deposit money banks to expand their activities to new areas.
Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Currency markets, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial sector reform, Stock markets, Treasury bills and bonds
Keywords: a number of bank, bank instrument, Commercial banks, CR, Currency markets, deposit interest rates stable, deposit money bank, development bank, Financial sector reform, interest rate, ISCR, rate, Stock markets, Treasury bills and bonds
Pages:
62
Volume:
1995
DOI:
Issue:
017
Series:
Country Report No. 1995/017
Stock No:
1TUNEA0011995
ISBN:
9781451837728
ISSN:
1934-7685
Notes
This statistical annex on Tunisia was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with this member. In releasing this document for public use, confidential material may have been removed at the request of the member.





