Open AccessConfinement, Food security and consumption of subsidized products in Tunisia: Worsening trade deficit
Author(s) -
Sawssen Nafti
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
technium social sciences journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2668-7798
DOI - 10.47577/tssj.v27i1.5681
Subject(s) - subsidy , balance of trade , food security , consumption (sociology) , covid-19 , economics , international trade , balance (ability) , international economics , development economics , agricultural economics , business , natural resource economics , agriculture , geography , market economy , medicine , social science , disease , archaeology , pathology , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physical medicine and rehabilitation
The present paper attempts to know if the confinement in Tunisia has an impact on the consumption of subsidized products and in turn on food security and on the trade balance or not. Firstly, by analyzing the place of subsidized products in Tunisian economy. Then via the determination of limits of confinement in Tunisia specially trade deficit. Finally through the analysis of different problems given by confinement on food security and increased of percentage of cancer. According to our analysis, confinement of COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented economic, food security and financial crisis in Tunisia especially on the trade deficit witch is suffer before of various difficulty. The confinement can be considred a good solution for COVID but it have many limits on food security for Tunisian and on incresed of consumption of subsidized products in Tunisia.