Le processus d'accession de l'Algérie à l'OMC, qui a débuté en 1987 dans le cadre du GATT, est de loin le plus long parmi les négociations en cours. Malgré ce délai, un certain nombre de problèmes importants doivent encore être réglés pour aboutir à un accord. Le passage du GATT à...

Algeria. Female Employment in TransitionA first series of studies I carried out in the 1980s revealed the structure and the evolution of female activity in Algeria observed during decade 60-80, from initial conditions that described the colonial situation and the status of women in Algerian...

Can the quality of institutions explain the economic ‘backwardness' of Middle-East and North Africa? Recent work tries to answer this question using the Douglas North neo-institutionnalist theory that explains the rise of the Western world by the emergence in the North of Europe with Xth...

North (2005) attribue l'échec économique du monde musulman aux institutions et à leur incapacité à promouvoir l'adaptation à l'environnement et l'innovation. Il fait remonter cet échec au moyen âge tardif, aux Xe-XIIIe siècles. Pour sa démonstration, il s'appuie sur les travaux d'Avner...

Labour Market and Economic Growth in AlgeriaBetween 1990 and 1997, the rate of unemployment in Algeria doubled, reacching more than 20 % of the working population. If since 2004 a sensitive decline was recorded, it mainly seems to reflect the extension of the informal sector, which represents...