A leading Tunisian economist warns that the underlying economic equalities behind the revolt are being ignored.
By Yasmine Ryan
It took Tunisians just one month to push their loathed president from power.
In the weeks since they forced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country, Tunisians have enjoyed a flurry of newly-found freedoms: freedom of expression, freedom to protest, and the freedom to form a political party.
Yet little has been done so far to address the deep-seated economic and social issues that helped to drive the revolt in the first place, a leading Tunisian economists tells Al Jazeera.



