and despite all the uncertainty about food, about security, the thrill that ordinary people were able to overthrow a 23-year-old dictatorship hasn t worn off. lovely tu to you nnisia, we . reporter: ben wedeman in carthage, tunisia. the worries about tunisia and the economy certainly affected the stock market. the benchmark tunindex slumped 13% in the last week alone and is at a two-year low. unemployment, which sparked the unrest in the first place, went up to 13%. and the cost of living just keeps rising. and there s a shortage of some basic goods, including food. about three-quarters of tunisia s exports currently go to the european union. with the european economy itself in the doldrums, the country faces a tough time exporting its way back into growth.