La problématique du chômage en Algérie
The Problem of the unemployment in Algeria

Author(s): Omar Benia
Subject(s): Economy, Labor relations
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu
Keywords: Algeria;unemployed;structural adjustment program;tools;
Summary/Abstract: Today, in Algeria the unemployment issue represents a major concern to the governing. The unemployment has bacame a real threat to any sustainable economic development. Indeed, the events of October 1988, which had leaded to a multiparty politicalsystem and the abandon of the oriented econolmy which was based on inward-oriented command system, conjugated with the drastic drop of the dollar and the price of crudeoil, there by the inability of Algeria to pay back its external debt (28 billions dollars) have constrained to sign a structural adjustment program (SAP), including a rescheduling of Algeria’s foreign debts but also a new vision of the economy policy. This had leaded to the closure of hudreds of firms in deficit resulted in a significanting crease of unemployment has being exceeded the matk of 30% (500 000 jobs loss between 1995–1998). In front of this situation, it had to implement so many tools in order to solve this problem and enhance the local wealth such as, National Agency for Support to Youth Employment (ANSEJ), National Investment Development Agency (ANDI), National Unemployment Insurance Fund (CNAC), National Agency of Microcredit (ANGEM). Our contribution tries to show in the first part, the dynamic and the nature of the unemployment in Algeria and then in the second part we’ll show the different mean simplemented. Finally we attempt to analyze the results and the dificiecies in order to draw lessons.

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