Middle East Economic Survey
VOL. LII
No 46
16-Nov-2009
ALGERIA
Social Unrest Belies Algerias Economic Resilience
The IMF estimates that youth unemployment in Algeria stands at 25%, a rate that it says has seen no change in the last two years and which it described as worrying. The assessment comes amid protests and outbreaks of sporadic violence in Algiers and elsewhere, motivated by the governments failure to raise living standards, despite record-high oil and gas revenues last year and Algerias...
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