Tunisia’s economy is deteriorating and it is now on the brink of an economic collapse. Its economy is shackled by unsustainable policies that have been in place since President Kais Saied’s political takeover in July 2021, and he has just been re-elected for another five years. The prospects for radical reforms and a change of direction are poor, say political analysts Ishac Diwan, Hachemi Alaya and Hamza Meddeb of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in a recent paper. ‘Absent rapid reform,’ they assert, ‘Tunisia’s economic policies will plunge the country into an abyss.’ At the hea…