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Africa > Algeria > Government

ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Algiers
Corruption 2.8 [101st of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 3% [123rd of 143]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 6.2 % ... [151st of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 14 ... [13th of 171]
Status pseudo-democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 244 days ... [46th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 397 days ... [111st of 171]
Time required to register property > days 51 days ... [79th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 24 days ... [123rd of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 504 hours ... [29th of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 2.5 years ... [94th of 151]
Total businesses registered > number 79,908 ... [50th of 71]
Trademarks, nonresidents 871 ... [36th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 1,488 ... [32nd of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Algeria supports the Polisario Front exiled in Algeria and who represent the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic; Algeria rejects Moroccan administration of Western Sahara; most of the approximately 90,000 Western Saharan Sahrawi refugees are sheltered in camps in Tindouf, Algeria; Algeria's border with Morocco remains an irritant to bilateral relations, each nation accusing the other of harboring militants and arms smuggling; Algeria remains concerned about armed bandits operating throughout the Sahel who sometimes destabilize southern Algerian towns; dormant disputes include Libyan claims of about 32,000 sq km still reflected on its maps of southeastern Algeria and the FLN's assertions of a claim to Chirac Pastures in southeastern Morocco
UN membership date 8 Oct. 1962
United Nations mission
Http://www.algeria-un.org
Http://www.mae.dz/
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Kalorama Heights

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Al Jumhuriyah al Jaza'iriyah ad Dimuqratiyah ash Sha'biyah, Al Jaza'ir, algeria b

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