The Making of Contemporary Algeria, 1830-1987Cambridge University Press, 22.08.2002 - 323 Seiten In 1962, after the war of independence, the new rulers of Algeria inherited a country which had both the manpower and the financial resources needed for development, because of its reserves of oil and natural gas. During the last 26 years there have been discussions and experiments revolving around two problems: whether the economy should be controlled by the government or should be one in which private enterprise (the multi-national companies and their local agents) play a larger part; and whether the main emphasis of economic policy should be on heavy industry or on agriculture and consumer industries. This book gives a detailed account of the discussions and changes of policy and analyses the experiments and their results. Dr Bennoune argues that the rapid development of basic industries provides the only path by which countries in the Third World can hope to attain real independence, and that this policy demands a degree of public participation that only a democratic government can generate. |
Inhalt
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The development of the private industrial sector | 162 |
Agriculture the stagnation of production and its consequences | 176 |
Postindependence urbanisation and the housing crisis | 237 |
Public health since 1962 | 245 |
The growth of employment income and consumption | 252 |
The new economic policy and its implications | 262 |
Conclusion | 303 |
Notes | 312 |
Index | 320 |
Education and development | 218 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
activities administration agrarian revolution agricultural production agricultural sector Algiers Annaba annual average Arabic areas autogestion basic Benjadid Bilan Boumedienne capital capitalist cent cereals cities colonial comprador bourgeoisie Constantine construction and public cubic metres cultivation declined despite economic employed employment established export farms favour fertiliser foreign four-year plan France French hectares hectolitres hydrocarbons imports income increased independence industrial enterprises industrial sector industrialisation Industry and Energy investment irrigated Jijel l'Algérie labour force land light industries Maghreb major MARA million tons Ministry modernisation MPAT MTLD national economy national liberation nationalisation OFLA Oran organisation peasants period political pre-colonial private industrial private sector programme projects proletarianisation public enterprises public sector regime represented result rose schools second four-year plan self-managed sector self-management settlers social socialist society socio-economic SONATRACH Source specialised structure Table units urban centres utilisation vocational training wage wage labour wilayates workers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.
Seite 133 - It must be recognized first of all that in the world in which we live all the strings of the world economy are in the hands of a minority composed of the highly developed countries. By virtue of its dominant position, this minority proceeds at will in determining the allocation of world resources in accordance with an order of priorities of its own.
Seite 118 - ... interpeasant exchange must correspondingly increase. . . . [Consequently] the stabilization of the relation between the total volume of the industrial and of the agricultural marketable output at the level of their prewar proportions implies a drastic disturbance in the equilibrium between the effective demand of the village and the marketable output of the town.
Seite 150 - Societe Nationale pour la Recherche, la Production, le Transport, la Transformation et la Commercialisation des Hydrocarbures (Sonatrach) (Algerie).
Seite 23 - It should be known that differences of condition among people are the result of the different ways in which they make their living. Social organization enables them to co-operate toward that end and to start with the simple necessities of life, before they get to conveniences and luxuries. Some people adopt agriculture, the cultivation of vegetables and grains, (as their way of making a living).
Seite 312 - Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (New York: International Publishers, 1963...
Seite 94 - An analysis of the social content of the liberation struggle makes it apparent that it has been the workers and peasants generally who have been the active base of the movement and have given it its essentially popular character. Their massive participation has in turn led other social layers of the nation. ... It should be noted in this connection, that in most cases it was young people of bourgeois origin who determined the adherence of the bourgeoisie to the cause of independence, The people's...
Seite 16 - Property belongs to both sexes whether united or separate; for each it is an inviolable and sacred right; no one can be deprived of it...
Seite 133 - ... divided them hitherto and to create a context of cooperation for reconciling their respective interests. We cannot fail to note that the gradual shift out of the cold war context has not been accompanied by a corresponding improvement in the condition of the countries of the Third World. On the contrary, tension and war have been transferred to Asia, Africa and Latin America, which have become the zones where all the contradictions of our contemporary world are concentrated and exacerbated.
Seite 133 - However, it is abundantly clear that these initiatives correspond essentially to the aims of the developed countries anxious to find a common ground for the settlement of the serious disagreements that divided them hitherto and to create a context of cooperation for reconciling their respective interests. We cannot fail to note that the gradual shift out of the cold war context has not been accompanied by a corresponding improvement in the condition of the countries of the Third World. On the contrary,...
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