Algiers needs a decision maker to speed up bank privatisation

Clear winners and losers are emerging in the race to privatise North African banks. Over the past 18 months, Libya has quickly moved from having no bank privatisation programme at all to successfully selling stakes in two banks at reassuringly high prices. At the other end the scale, Algeria appears to have made little or no progress.



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