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August 15, 2009

Algeria & Chinese in Algeria: the riot & fallout (summ from Lounsbury)

A cross post to note : Readers may be interested in a Lounsbury blog note on the Algeria & the Chinese incident  (see here for original Aqoul note) and a longer commentary on The Moor Next Door.

I'd note my as well, regarding the incident and Moor Kal's eval: he is quite right that this comes in the context of a country on a low boil. 

This is to say nothing of the numerous fits of car and tire burning that go on quite often elsewhere in Algeria. This is part of the setting of Bouteflika’s Algeria, and it is the failure of the socio-economic order he has setup, that addresses only macro-level economic and social problems, but fails to address the basic tensions in Algerian society in an effective way.

While agreeing with the failure of the socio-economic order, actually, I would say that Boutefliqa's Algeria doesn't address in any coherent way macro-economic problems. Quite the contrary, in fact the incoherent mish-mash of foot-dragging liberalisation (which reeks of 'we're only doing because our hands are forced') and then backtracking to failed 1970s era quasi autarkic import substitution regimes seems to be merely muddling forward by a group of elderly fools who can't admit that their revolution failed.

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Posted by The Lounsbury at August 15, 2009 05:34 AM
Filed Under: Economic Development , North Africa , Society & Culture

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