This investment report on Algeria is the exclusive product of Arab Communication Consult, a leading communications agency for the Arab world. The agency’s most important activity is producing special investment reports for Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, the Arab world’s most imperative and widely read news and information source; it also provides communications solutions and consulting services to governments and non-government institutions or businesses. 

With its team of communications specialists, information analysts, and the dynamic platform of Asharq al-Awsat, Arab Communication Consult can offer services that no other agency is in the position to provide. It can deliver up-to-date, accurate business and investment information that reaches the region’s political and economic leaders, and offer its clients the regional contacts they need to realize their goals. 

The mission of Arab Communication Consult is to use its expertise in communications to bridge the geographic and cultural distances existing in this huge region in order to facilitate commercial and economic integration, an essential process of globalization. Uniting governments with governments, governments with businesses, and businesses with businesses, Arab Communication Consult has become a trusted intermediary in the increasingly interdependent development of the Arab world’s economy. 

Arab Communication Consult has produced this report to promote the country’s economic reform program during the IMF/World Bank Group Meeting in Prague, 2000. A larger version of this report will be published in Asharq al-Awsat newspaper in November, 2000.