The Investment System in Algeria — More than 20,000 projects worth nearly $70 billion
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Sifi Gharib Algerian Prime Minister The Single Window: A Key to Modernizing the Investment System: The Algerian government announced a new regulatory phase for the investment system, reducing processing time for investor files to 15 days as a general rule, and 20 days for classified establishments. The Algerian Investment Development Agency (ADIA) is now obligated to respond to requests for economic real estate within 48 hours of its board’s decision. This step aims to eliminate procedural delays, unify administrative channels, and accelerate the transformation of registered projects into actual productive activity. These directives were outlined in a speech by Prime Minister Sifi Gharib during the opening of a media day on the new legal provisions governing the Single Window for Investment. The government presented the reform as a shift from a fragmented administrative approach to an integrated, results-oriented system, and from a limited intermediary window to a single, effective point of contact with the authority to process, sign, and make decisions in favor of the investor. – The figures presented by the Prime Minister reveal the scale of the economic stakes associated with this reform. The Algerian Investment Promotion Agency has registered more than 20,000 investment projects since the previous legislation came into effect in 2022, with a total declared value of approximately $67.5 billion, and projections indicating the creation of more than 525,000 jobs. Thus, the issue is no longer simply a matter of limited administrative improvement, but rather a recalibration of one of the most important drivers of non-hydrocarbon economic growth, at a time when Algeria is seeking to broaden its production base, deepen its industrialization, and increase the contribution of private and productive investment to wealth creation. – Broad powers for the Algerian Investment Promotion Agency: The new reform is based on addressing the root causes of the problem by