مجلة البصائر للبحوث في العلوم الاقتصادية والتجارية وعلوم التسيير
Volume 2, Numéro 2, Pages 38-53
2023-12-31

Algeria’s Balance Of Payments: 2013-2022

Authors : Aoudia Nassira .

Abstract

All international monetary transactions are reported in the balance of payments. The International Monetary Fund elaborated a methodology of construction of the balance of payments which consists of two components: current account and capital and financial account. The International Monetary Fund's methodology served as an inspiration for the Algerian balance of payments, which is published by the Bank of Algeria. In this paper, we analyze the balance of payments of Algeria for the period 2013-2022. Data are extracted from the Bank of Algeria (website and official report) and the International Monetary Fund (website). Supplementary data are exploited: data on international real transactions on goods published by the National Office for Statistics of Algeria (official report), and data realted to the foreign investment and more specifically to the doing business published by the World Bank (official report). The results show a structural deficit of the overall balance of payments.

Keywords

Foreign trade ; Foreign investment ; Gross reserves ; Exports ; Imports