Submission Statement: old article from dec 2020 I stumbled across yesterday. Was interesting to read and would like this sub view on it. Especially the portion where it discusses how foreign investment is riskier in young democracies vs authoritarian regimes.
also the part where the revolution happened because of economic reasons – and by you gov polling (in 2020) only 27% thought the economy was doing better then pre Arab spring.
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In the years since this article was written, Tunisia’s nascent democracy was overthrown and replaced by an authoritarian regime in some ways reminiscent of Ben Ali’s before it. In the beginning people even celebrated that overthrow, including some people on this very sub. And yet, 5 years after the overthrow, the economy is still in the gutter; the new authoritarian regime has fixed basically nothing, to everyone’s shock . . .