Laws of austerity in Algeria: Ouyahia saves USD 2 billion used in superfluous plans.

The public treasury implemented Algerian Prime Minister’s directive calling back some USD 2 billion from 2011 budgets. Ouyahia’s directive aimed at compelling all public institutions and administration to abandon any seminar and other superfluous events costing huge amounts of money to the Algerian state. The plan seems to have worked as the financials of the country could save USD 2 billion for 2011. The PM noticed that lots of ministers could avoid seminars and events organisation as it has been seen as money-for-nothing justification regarding the annual budget foe every department. After more than a decade of political turmoil, Algerian departments got back to former programs including vocational training sessions aimed at perfectionning a ministry employee.Mr. Ouyhia, who is Prime Minster for the third time since 1995 has always seen some money spending in ministries as not cost effective, has chosen to focus on work rather than development and training of staffs. Performances and results guide Ouyahia in his philosophy of management. He might be partisan of the ‘’performance, innovation and perfection come from day-to-day tasks rather than training sessions around five-star meals in five-star hotels.Mr. Ouyahia is also known fro his cuts in salaries initiative in 1995, when he decided to make Algerians give very few of their salaries to a black cash system used to give salaries to tens of thousands of employees who did receive their salaries in months due to productivity issues. The money was later reimbursed to the cut people. The move was so unpopular that people are getting Mr. Ouyahia’ image, as someone who would come to take from and not give to citizens their rights.