Abstract: International audience; The Covid-19 crisis occurred at a time when the economic situation was already critical. It led to an 8.6% drop in GDP, the largest in the Maghreb excluding Libya. The general containment of March-April certainly made it possible to control a first wave of the epidemic "but at the cost of a massive recessionary effect (a 19% drop in GDP in the second quarter on a quarterly basis). Tourism (5% of GDP, but up to 14% of GDP indirectly), already in a bad way, collapsed. The epidemic rebound in the autumn led to the return of...
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