Have Tunisian middle classes been better protected in response to the post-COVID economic crisis? Analysis of households’ adaptive strategies through the prism of social stratification

Les classes moyennes tunisiennes ont-elles été mieux protégées face à la crise liée à la covid 19 ? Analyse des stratégies adaptatives des ménages au prisme de la stratification sociale

Tsiry Andrianampiarivo, Céline Bonnefond and Fatma Mabrouk
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Tsiry Andrianampiarivo: CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Céline Bonnefond: CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Fatma Mabrouk: Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University

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Abstract: Using household survey data, we empirically analyze the relationship between the diversity of Tunisians' adaptive strategies in facing the post-COVID economic crisis and social stratification. The results show that only the upper middle classes and wealthier categories, as well as a minority of the lower middle classes, benefit from institutionalized social protection mechanisms. Part of the lower and intermediate middle classes adopt informal socialized arrangements. The working classes and some members of the intermediate middle classes combine individualized mechanisms while the most vulnerable people are left empty-handed.

Keywords: middle classes; COVID crisis; social policies; social protection; adaptive strategies; Tunisia; classes moyennes; crise covid; politiques sociales; protection sociale; stratégies adaptatives; Tunisie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-05-05
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Published in Mondes en Développement, 2025, tome 53 (n° 209), pp. 75-99. ⟨10.3917/med.209.0076⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/med.209.0076

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