Aux origines du caractère rentier de l’économie Algérienne Back to the origins of the rent-oriented character of the Algerian economy

Abstract

This paper is about a contribution to the definition of the conditions for a successfull economic transition toward a market economy in light of the algerian experience of reforms. This question raises the general issue of constraints that hinder or slow reforms amid any transition period. We affirm that the analysis of the political system, its constraints and its contradictions should be the starting point for any investigation on the issues related to transition. The past weight and its decicive influence on the process of transition from an economic organization to another one is the ultimate factor that we investigate in this regard