Obstacles to privatisation of state-owned industries in Algeria
The Political Economy of a Distributive Conflict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isabelle Werenfels (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-28 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629380208718455 |
| OpenAlex | W2005253061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 12 |
This analysis seeks to explain why privatisation of state‐owned industrial enterprises in Algeria ‐ a process pushed by the IMF and the World Bank and launched in 1994 ‐has not led to a single complete divestiture of shares of corporatised public enterprises by 2001. Privatisation of these enterprises has been impeded by (1) intra‐elite struggles and violent conflicts between state elites and armed groups over the distribution of rents, rendering decision making and coherent reform strategies impossible; (2) military and bureaucratic elite clans that profit from import monopoly and oligopoly rents and display little interest in increased domestic production; (3) the role of industrial enterprises in (clientelist) social networks; (4) the strong remnants of a nationalist, étatist, socialist and collectivist ideology
Bureaucracy · Collectivism · Divestment · Economic rent · Economic system · Economics · Elite · Expropriation · Ideology · Individualism · Market economy · Monopoly · Oligopoly · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rent-seeking · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Economic Theory and Policy · Indian Economic and Social Development
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,74 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |