This Extractivism Policy Brief 01/2025 shows:
- Algeria’s rentier economy persists not due to institutional failure alone, but because a historically entrenched habitus actively sustains and legitimizes the status quo.
- Formal institutions fail not due to a lack of laws, but because informal norms and personal ties still rule the game.
- Without tackling beliefs and everyday practices, institutional reforms remain a façade — symbolic but ineffective.
The Author: Samir Bellal is a professor of economics at the University of Tizi-Ouzou in Algeria. His research focuses on economic regulation and institutional change in the rentier economy context. His academic contributions deal mainly with the case of the Algerian economy and institutional background.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17170/kobra-2025052011160
Link to PDF: Download Extractivism Policy Brief 01/2025 (ENGLISCH)
