TY - BOOK ID - 85599680 TI - Algeria : 2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Algeria. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2018 SN - 1484367758 1484367693 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Monetary policy KW - Monetary management KW - Economic policy KW - Currency boards KW - Money supply KW - Algeria KW - Economic conditions. KW - Banks and Banking KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Statistics KW - Taxation KW - Fiscal Policy KW - Banks KW - Depository Institutions KW - Micro Finance Institutions KW - Mortgages KW - Energy: Demand and Supply KW - Prices KW - Central Banks and Their Policies KW - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology KW - Computer Programs: Other KW - Banking KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Econometrics & economic statistics KW - Currency KW - Foreign exchange KW - Fiscal consolidation KW - Oil prices KW - Quasi-fiscal operations KW - State-owned banks KW - Fiscal policy KW - Banks and banking KW - Tax administration and procedure UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85599680 AB - This 2018 Article IV Consultation highlights the important challenges Algeria continues to face as a result of the fall in oil prices four years ago. Despite sizable fiscal consolidation in 2017, the fiscal and current account deficits remain large. Real GDP growth slowed sharply, driven mainly by a contraction in hydrocarbon production, although growth in the nonhydrocarbon sector was stable. Unemployment increased to 11.7 percent in September 2017 from 10.5 in September 2016 and remains particularly high among youth and women. Average inflation declined from 6.4 percent in 2016 to 5.6 percent owing to slowing inflation for manufactured goods and services, and stood at 3.4 percent year over year in April 2018. ER -