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The World Bank in Algeria

In Algeria, the World Bank provides technical assistance and analytical services in various areas, such as social protection, human capital development, disaster risk management, renewable energies and the investment climate.

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Algeria's Economic Update — April 2022

Led by the oil and gas sector, the Algerian economy expanded by 3.9% year-on-year during the first nine months of 2021.
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Tackling the risk of wildfires

Sustainable Forest Management offers a way to improve the value of forests for generations while taking the risk of fire on board.
webinar

Building back a better Algeria

The Algerian government and World Bank have organized webinars to discuss DRM prioritization and international best practices.

Algeria At-A-Glance

For the past 10 years, the partnership between the World Bank and Algeria has been based on advisory services, consisting of two cycles of Reimbursable Advisory Services running from 2011 to 2015 and 2016 to 2020. The current technical assistance projects, through advisory and analytical services and Trust Fund operations, seek to boost growth through economic diversification and promote sustainable development.

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Algeria’s Economic Outlook

October 2021

The Algerian economy is undergoing a fragile recovery, supported by a rebound in hydrocarbon output, exports and prices. Together with high oil prices, continued exchange rate depreciation and import compression policies have eased fiscal and external financing requirements, however contributing to an uptick in inflation.

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The World Bank

Jesko Hentschel

Country Director for the Maghreb and Malta

Emmanuel Cuvillier

Emmanuel Cuvillier

Resident Representative in Algeria

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Economic Growth Analytics Dec 22, 2021

Algeria's Economic Update — Fall 2021

Restoring the Algerian Economy after the Pandemic.
Oct 07, 2021

MENA Economic Update: Overconfident: How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left ...

This edition of the World Bank MENA Economic Update estimates that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s economies, which contracted by 3.8% in 2020, will grow by 2.8% in 2021.
Jul 02, 2021

Middle East and North Africa: Looking Forward

World Bank assistance to MENA countries focuses on these strategic areas, supporting both near-term recovery and longer-term economic transformation.
Oct 07, 2020

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020

The World Bank’s biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity report finds that the rate of extreme poverty in the MENA region rose from 3.8% in 2015 to 7.2% in 2018 — the latest year for which data is available.

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Isabelle Poupaert

+1-202-458-7038

ipoupaert@worldbank.org