Hungary and Tunisia are two countries that rely heavily on FDI as an important pillar of economic growth. These countries are similar in terms of market size, geographic proximity to Europe and in particular from the point of view of attractiveness to FDI. However, they are dissimilar from the point of view of economic performance, the productivity of factors of production, highly skilled labor, and so on. This article proposes to make, on the one hand, a comparison of attractiveness policies in the two countries as well as to present the quantitative specificities of FDI. On the other hand, this article focuses on the presentation of motivations as well as different strategies of investors. Finally, this work focuses on the effects of FDI on economic restructuring as well as on technology transfer in the two countries for the first half of the third millennium.
Since the 1970s, Tunisia has made FDI one of the pillars of its economic and social development policy. To do this, it has pursued an increasingly welcoming policy of attractiveness which has made it possible to increase the flow of FDI received by the country. FDI is expected to contribute to the country’s industrial development, technology transfer, increased exports and above all, job creation. Indeed, the country suffers during these last years from a relatively high rate of unemployment which makes the social situation more and more difficult and which pushes the inhabitants to leave the country in a legal or illegal way in order to improve their levels of life. It is precisely in this context that we endeavor to analyze and take stock of the contribution of FDI to job creation and subsequently to the reduction of migratory flows.
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