Area of
Intervention
Year
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
Compensation
300
309
431
400
420
600
for paper
1287 1594 2067
2450
2585
3250
Books
1530 2193 2602
2870
3955
4400
Cinema
620 1041 1406
1720
2365
2850
Theatre
310
557
668
855
857
980
Plastic Arts
100
126
200
270
398
400
Music
Cultural
2500 2986 3143
4720
4446
5000
Shows
Subventions
for
Committees,
807
843
860
1160
1452
1420
Associations
and Artistic
Groups
Total
7,454 9,649 11,377 14,445 16,478 18,900
Rate of
Progression
(1999-2004)
100%
153%
188%
360%
216%
300%
100%
76%
154%
(Amounts in 1,000’ Tunisian Dinars)
B) The principle of « Culture for All »
394. The concretization of the principle of « Culture for All » in the Tunisian
Cultural Policy led to the putting in place of a national strategy for the realization
of the following objectives:
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The number of cultural centres total 203. They constitute a framework of
appropriate activity enabling all those who go there to open an activity of a
coherent duration, promoting the most compact and most permanent
synergies and exchanges;
The specific activities which are attached to them number 913. The
number of beneficiaries of these activities total 4,000,000;
The Book, under all its forms, both conventional and modern, plays an
essential role in the dissemination of knowledge and of the arts, in the
enrichment of the spirit and the propagation of the values of good, of law
and justice, as well as from the aesthetics point of view. The year 2003
had been declared « National Year of the Book ». This decision has the
objective of improving the book sector and to promote reading in all the
areas (urban and rural) and to affect the entire population (the disabled,
the illiterates …). Currently there are 362 public libraries (including the
mobile libraries) directed at all the age brackets and distributed throughout
the Tunisian territory. New measures had been decided in favour of the
book sector in its cultural and economic components notably the raising of
the rate of compensation for paper to 75%, the encouragement of private
initiative, etc. These measures are aimed at guaranteeing a book for each
inhabitant;
The launching in 2006 of the broadcasts of the Cultural Radio to promote
the presence of all the expressions of Tunisian culture through the services
of communication and broadcasting, to allow the deployment of the
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