IMF Staff Country Reports

Algeria: Selected Issues

March 9, 2006

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Algeria: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper for Algeria analyzes the potential economic impact of Algeria’s Association Agreement with the European Union (AAEU). The paper lays out the major elements of Algeria’s AAEU and makes a comparison with other AAEUs. It discusses the potential economic implications (costs and benefits) of the agreement, and elaborates economic policy issues and challenges. The paper also takes stock of Algeria’s business climate as the authorities consider the use of the fiscal space created by higher hydrocarbon revenues to tackle Algeria’s jobs challenge.

Subject: Business environment, Corporate income tax, Economic sectors, Labor, Payroll tax, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Algeria, Algeria's AAEU, Business environment, Corporate income tax, Country, CR, Enterprise, Europe, Face in Algeria, Firm, Government, Hydrocarbon sector, ISCR, Jobs challenge, Labor-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises, Maghreb, Payroll tax, Retard enterprise restructuring, Small and medium-sized enterprise, Tariffs, Trade diversion, Trade liberalization, Trade partner

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    47

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2006/101

  • Stock No:

    1DZAEA2006002

  • ISBN:

    9781451811506

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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Also available online in French