The trade deficit at current prices has worsened by nearly 50%, to 6.6 billion dinars at the end of April 2022, against 4.4 billion dinars during the same period of 2021, according to statistics published Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
The Central Bank of Tunisia (French: BCT) ranked second out of a total of 159 counterparts across the globe in women's respresentation in decision-making positions, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (French:OMFIF) said in its ninth annual Gender Balance Index (GBI).
Inflation confirms its upward trend in April 2022, increasing to 7.5% against 7.2% in March, 7% in February and 6.7% in January, said the National Institute of Statistics (INS), in its monthly bulletin on the consumer price index.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries said in a statement Thursday grain harvest cannot be started before reaching a moisture content of 13%, to preserve the production against destruction during storage.