Five Battles to Build a New Tunisia?
16 July 2011
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Mr. Cyril Grislain Karray, international consultant and former associate director of McKinsey & Company, was the guest of honor at a cocktail debate organized on Friday, July 15, 2011, by the CJD in collaboration with the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation.
"Strategic Vision on the Tunisian Post-Revolution Economy", this was the theme of the meeting. It was an opportunity to reflect on the future of the country's economy.
Mr. Karray led a study in 2009 on the state of affairs in Tunisia. Through this investigation, he was able to see the severity of the situation of the unemployed in the country. "At the time, we had counted 500,000 unemployed, it worried me a lot. We were producing diplomas for unemployment," he stated.
After a short stint in the transitional government as an advisor, Cyril decided to write a book entitled "The Next War in Tunisia - Victory in 5 Battles." According to him, it's a book that shakes things up, but for a good cause.
With his 12 years of experience in Brazil, Cyril attempts in this book to provide solutions to a very big problem: two million unemployed and excluded people in Tunisia in five years.
Cyril is convinced that Tunisia can become the Switzerland of the Mediterranean and the Singapore of Africa, provided that we transform the "I would like to" into "I can."
According to him, it's a real war. This is how it must be understood, a war with its plans, its camps, its noise, its nerves, its sacrifices and its adversaries.
The first battle concerns the economy. According to Cyril, it is imperative to revolutionize the economy to create 500,000 jobs: "No restructuring or upgrading! The Tunisian economy needs a real revolution."
The second battle is "a diploma is good, a job is better." The education system is totally disconnected from the job market. Indeed, it produces more than half of the unemployed each year: "In my opinion, it is necessary to revolutionize the system, to reform it to produce young people capable of easily integrating into the job market."
According to Mr. Karray, these two battles cost a lot of money, so it is necessary to redistribute wealth courageously and encourage investment to carry out the restructuring.
The fourth battle concerns women. For Cyril, they must constitute the leadership of the transformation: "Our women represent the great treasure of the country. We can build a country led by a president like in Brazil, Iceland or Pakistan, provided that we remove the texts of inequality between men and women."
The Revolution is a socio-economic war, the first of its kind in Tunisia and in the world: "We are called upon to increase our leadership capacity so that institutions can cope with two million Tunisians who are outside the country. This is my fifth battle: leadership and institutions."
For Cyril, the current situation depends on less state, less direction, more regional decentralization. In addition to this, there is a presidential regime like the American regime so that Tunisia's elite is at the same level as other countries, namely Korea, Brazil, Chile, and Qatar.
Manel.K
Published on July 16, 2011.
Posted online on July 16, 2011.
www.investir-en-tunisie.net
"Strategic Vision on the Tunisian Post-Revolution Economy", this was the theme of the meeting. It was an opportunity to reflect on the future of the country's economy.
Mr. Karray led a study in 2009 on the state of affairs in Tunisia. Through this investigation, he was able to see the severity of the situation of the unemployed in the country. "At the time, we had counted 500,000 unemployed, it worried me a lot. We were producing diplomas for unemployment," he stated.
After a short stint in the transitional government as an advisor, Cyril decided to write a book entitled "The Next War in Tunisia - Victory in 5 Battles." According to him, it's a book that shakes things up, but for a good cause.
With his 12 years of experience in Brazil, Cyril attempts in this book to provide solutions to a very big problem: two million unemployed and excluded people in Tunisia in five years.
Cyril is convinced that Tunisia can become the Switzerland of the Mediterranean and the Singapore of Africa, provided that we transform the "I would like to" into "I can."
According to him, it's a real war. This is how it must be understood, a war with its plans, its camps, its noise, its nerves, its sacrifices and its adversaries.
The first battle concerns the economy. According to Cyril, it is imperative to revolutionize the economy to create 500,000 jobs: "No restructuring or upgrading! The Tunisian economy needs a real revolution."
The second battle is "a diploma is good, a job is better." The education system is totally disconnected from the job market. Indeed, it produces more than half of the unemployed each year: "In my opinion, it is necessary to revolutionize the system, to reform it to produce young people capable of easily integrating into the job market."
According to Mr. Karray, these two battles cost a lot of money, so it is necessary to redistribute wealth courageously and encourage investment to carry out the restructuring.
The fourth battle concerns women. For Cyril, they must constitute the leadership of the transformation: "Our women represent the great treasure of the country. We can build a country led by a president like in Brazil, Iceland or Pakistan, provided that we remove the texts of inequality between men and women."
The Revolution is a socio-economic war, the first of its kind in Tunisia and in the world: "We are called upon to increase our leadership capacity so that institutions can cope with two million Tunisians who are outside the country. This is my fifth battle: leadership and institutions."
For Cyril, the current situation depends on less state, less direction, more regional decentralization. In addition to this, there is a presidential regime like the American regime so that Tunisia's elite is at the same level as other countries, namely Korea, Brazil, Chile, and Qatar.
Manel.K
Published on July 16, 2011.
Posted online on July 16, 2011.
www.investir-en-tunisie.net
