Distributive injustice

More than ten people were killed in riots in Tunisia on Monday, eyewitnesses report. The blatant social injustice is forcing  demonstrators on to the streets, writes the business paper Les Echos: "The explosions of violence and their murderous repression in Tunisia illustrate the paradox of a country that has successfully played the card of economic openness and capitalism, but whose regime has gradually become removed - if not cut off altogether - from the middle classes. ... Certainly, the outbursts of violence that are rocking Tunisia are taking place in the central regions, far removed from the effects of tourism and the prosperity of the more business-oriented coastal cities. In short, they are taking place in the areas where the dividends of economic progress are the least well distributed, and where the people's hopes of prosperity are the farthest from being fulfilled."

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