Algeria: 2017 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Algeria

June 1, 2017

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Algeria: 2017 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Algeria, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

This 2017 Article IV Consultation highlights Algeria’s continued challenges posed by lower oil prices. Overall economic activity was resilient, but growth in the nonhydrocarbon sector slowed to 2.9 percent in 2016, partly under the effects of spending cuts. Inflation increased from 4.8 percent in 2015 to 6.4 percent in 2016 and stood at 7.7 percent year over year in February 2017. Unemployment was 10.5 percent in September 2016 and remains particularly high among youth (26.7 percent) and women (20.0 percent). Despite fiscal consolidation in 2016, the fiscal and current account deficits remained large, and public debt increased, reflecting in part the assumption of government-guaranteed debt. International reserves, while still ample, have declined rapidly.

Subject: Banking, Financial institutions, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Fiscal risks, Oil prices, Prices, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM), State-owned banks

Keywords: CR, Economy, Exchange rate, Exchange regime, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal risks, Global, IMF staff estimate, ISCR, Money market rate, Oil price shock, Oil prices, State-owned banks, Support private sector development

Publication Details

Pages:

65
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2017/141
Stock No:

1DZAEA2017001
ISBN:

9781484302668
ISSN:

1934-7685

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