Why Has Unemployment in Algeria Been Higher Than in Mena and Transition Countries

Kpodar, Kangni

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“…Consequently, by the end of the 1980s, the country progressively abandoned its model of a planned and centralized economy, moving to establish an ambitious program of economic and social reforms aimed at promoting private sector development and growth (Kpodar, , p. 3). Traditionally, secular dictatorships have proved an obstacle to economic development, due to the fact that the ruling elite hindered the emergence of an entrepreneurial class and opposing foreign investment (Roy, , p. 61).…”

Section: The Identification Of Ideational and Policy Changementioning

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Examining Critical Junctures in Macroeconomic Policy in Nondemocratic States:Algeria andJordan in Comparative Perspective

Hogan¹,

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2013

Digest Mid East Studies

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The article uses the critical junctures framework in examining changes in macroeconomic policy in Algeria and Jordan during the late 1980s to determine if these policy changes constituted critical junctures. Both cases are significantly different from those studied previously using the framework, as neither state was a liberal democracy. The absence of democracy, and as a consequence of accountability, is a factor with which the critical junctures framework has not previously had to contend. This study will also enable us determine if the framework is sufficiently robust to be applied to the examination of macroeconomic policy changes in nondemocratic states. The findings show that in both countries political liberalization did not follow upon economic liberalization, giving lie to the often expressed assumption that economic liberalization and democratization go hand in hand. Instead, as the ruling elites in both countries sought to revive their economies, while maintaining their own positions in society, economic policy reforms required a gesture toward democratization but little else.

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Section: The Identification Of Ideational and Policy Changementioning

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Examining Critical Junctures in Macroeconomic Policy in Nondemocratic States:Algeria andJordan in Comparative Perspective

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2013

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“…A significant proportion of the unemployed had held positions in the public sector, and had subsequently lost their jobs in the privatization process. Unemployment during the 1990s in Algeria was higher than in the previous two decades, and even higher than the average across MENA countries (Kpodar 2007). "Unemployment escalated from 10 percent in 1985 to 25 percent in 1995" (Nashishibi et al 1998:42).…”

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Legitimacy and the politics of opposition in the Middle East and North Africa

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Common classifications are pseudo-democratic, semi-democratic, hybrid or electoral authoritarian regimes. 7 This point is made well by Diamond (2002): "Tracking the interplay between changes in political competition and changes in political repression may thus help us understand when and how moments of possible transition open and close in electoral authoritarian regimes….As democracies differ among themselves in significant ways and degrees, so do contemporary authoritarian regimes, and if we are to understand the contemporary dynamics, cause, limits, and possibilities of regime change (including possible future democratization), we must understand the different, and in some respects new, types of authoritarian rule" (23). 93 This was a sentiment widely expressed in interviews and informal conversations during my fieldwork in Jordan. Dr. 'Abd al-Latif 'Arrabiyyat, for example, called the 11 th Parliament the "peak" of parliamentary life in Jordan. Moreover, in its official statement explaining the 1997 boycott, the Muslim Brotherhood argued that "during the period from 1989 to 1993, the 11 th parliamentary session witnessed a democratic awakening which became evident by issuance of a host of laws that established grounds for a more advanced political life, such as the law of political parties, the 1993 press and publication law, the law of the state of the security court, the law of municipalities and the abolition of marital law."

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“…In particular, youth unemployment dropped from 48 per cent in 2001 to 31 per cent in 2005. The Government's employment policy has surely contributed to the significant reduction of the poverty rate in the country, which decreased from 14.1 per cent in 1995 to 5 per cent in 2008, as measured by the national poverty line (Kpodar, 2007 andGovernment of Algeria, 2010).…”

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Assessing Progress in Africa Toward the Millennium Development Goals

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Why Has Unemployment in Algeria Been Higher Than in Mena and Transition Countries

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Examining Critical Junctures in Macroeconomic Policy in Nondemocratic States:Algeria andJordan in Comparative Perspective

Examining Critical Junctures in Macroeconomic Policy in Nondemocratic States:Algeria andJordan in Comparative Perspective

Legitimacy and the politics of opposition in the Middle East and North Africa

Assessing Progress in Africa Toward the Millennium Development Goals

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