Post-independence Algeria’s economic planning badly damaged its agriculture and trade.

Evidence

The Arab-Israeli War of 1973, with its accompanying surge in oil prices, was partly orchestrated in Algiers. When Boumedienne died in 1978, the seemingly more benign Chadli Benjedid brought hopes of a more liberal Algeria. But these faded as the country wrestled with mountainous economic problems, amid murmurs of corruption estimated to have cost the impoverished country the equivalent of the entire national debt. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 39 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-independence Algeria’s influence abroad hid internal corruption and economic collapse. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 39; Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled; Economic problems threatened even a visibly prosperous 1980s Algeria (+1 more)

Related

• Economic problems threatened even a visibly prosperous 1980s Algeria (similarity 0.95)
• Post-independence Algeria’s influence abroad hid internal corruption and economic collapse. (similarity 0.95)
• Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled (similarity 0.83)
• Post-war Algerian moderation under Bendjedid prioritized domestic economics over foreign posturing (similarity 0.83)
• Severing Algeria proved a net economic gain for France (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian independence coincided with the start of France’s economic miracle. (similarity 0.80)
• French medical progress caused an Algerian population explosion that nullified economic reforms (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s oil nationalization triggered French economic retaliation (similarity 0.79)
• Post-independence Arabization made French integrationist dreams seem never realistically possible (similarity 0.79)
• The Constantine Plan produced measurable Algerian economic and educational gains. (similarity 0.79)
• Defeat in Algeria paradoxically produced a stronger France (similarity 0.79)
• France made substantial material and infrastructural improvements in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• The Constantine Plan proposed deep economic integration of Algeria with France (similarity 0.79)
• Corruption grew in step with the ruler-ruled gulf, deepening Algerian resentment (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled #expands (0.80)
• Post-independence Algeria’s influence abroad hid internal corruption and economic collapse. #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 39
• Economic problems threatened even a visibly prosperous 1980s Algeria #complicates (0.60)
• French medical progress caused an Algerian population explosion that nullified economic reforms #complicates (0.40)