VOL. XXXIV

NO. 48

2-SEPTEMBER-1991

Financial and Banking News

Budgets & Revenues

Algerian Assembly Rebuffs Proposed Price Increases

Algeria's National Assembly has rejected the price increases on a number ofbasic goods which had been proposed by the government and agreed with the IMF.The Assembly's speaker, Mr Abdel-'Aziz Belkhadem, said during a debate onAlgeria's supplementary budget on 26 August that money could be reallocated fromthe equipment budget so as to maintain subsidies on items...