Algeria has endured the classic problems of exaggerated industrialisation, ill-managed farm collectivisation, and rural depopulation.

ECONOMIST: Algeria

In 2006 an energetic Mr Fenty (at 35, the youngest mayor in the District's history) inherited a city on the mend after decades of depopulation and woeful governance.

ECONOMIST: Unemployment costs the mayor his job

Creeping depopulation and economic distress in rural areas.

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