We explore the relationship between internal migration and poverty in Tunisia. We present a methodology combining potential outcomes approach with multiple imputation to highlight the effect of internal migration on poverty states. We find that probability of being poor decreases when leaving the poorest regions (the west areas) to the richer regions (greater Tunis and the east regions). Keywor...

Background: Internet trade popularize the ornamental interest of plants but can also threaten species’ wild populations, if this activity is performed in uncontrolled and unauthorised ways.
 Questions: What endemic Morocco Tunisia are traded over by whom at what prices?
 Studied species: 94 northern 83 Tunisia.
 Study site dates: (Mediterranean coast Rif region); internet survey ...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to survey the clinical and pathological features of breast cancer in the Center of Tunisia. DESIGN Characteristics of all breast cancer cases diagnosed in the Pathology Department, Farhet Hached Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia during a 15-year period (1993-2007) were analyzed. RESULTS A total of 2,404 new cases of breast cancer were recorded, only 48 being d...

This paper is a bibliometric study of the publication patterns of academic and research scientists of Maghreb countries: Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The comparative study of the scientific production in the countries of Maghreb is made using Scopus data during the period 1996-2009. Results show that the total scientific production of Tunisia is higher than that of both Morocco and Algeria, ev...

Twenty cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) cases were notified from December 2001 to February 2002, in a small village in the district of Oueslatia (governorate of Kairouan, central Tunisia) which is an endemic focus of infantile visceral leishmaniasis due to leishmania (L.) infantum and that had never been concerned previously by CL. The parasite typing of two isolates obtained from two children that...