Everything has changed 57 years after Algeria’s independence, except for social exclusion, and its counterpart, spatial exclusion. To question slums is to question social inequality – that is, the “economy...
A city is more than the houses, roads, and social and economic facilities built inside it; it is also the network of social relations that exist among its residents. In...
In 2008, the number of people living in informal settlements or slums in Egypt grew to 15 million; the equivalent of 40% of the urban population in Egypt. In fact,...
Economic growth is usually linked to the revenues generated from exporting primary raw materials, like phosphate, fish stock, and agriproducts. Shrunken exports mean shrunken growth. However, growth generated from exporting...
Morocco is replete with natural resources: precious minerals and vast phosphate reserves, apart from deep-sea fishing, as well as agriculture. However, these resources are managed through a rentier approach from...
Over the past few decades, the authorities’ performance, fluctuating policies, and contradictory approaches have led to a state of impoverishment in Sudan, creating hotbeds of political, economic, and social unrest...
