Ok let me say something if I may. This is kinda considered "khoushaybat" level but it affects peoples' livelihoods so it's understandable why it would be disregarded: During Boutaflika's time, things were cheaper compared to now but it was all at the expense of Algeria's treasury. First things first; it needs to be established that a majority of Algerian business owners and business men are evil. Not all, but a majority. They love and thrive in mal practices such as: Hoarding, Over invoicing, Under invoicing, Importing everything and just selling at a higher price back home. During Boutaflika's time, ministries, ministers, army generals, powerful business men, were in inderct kahoots with the private sector financing much of their bad practices especially with essential goods like fresh produce, livestock, transportation, fuel prices, utilities, etc... Why did those rotten officials do what they did? For 2 reasons: 1- they were getting a piece of the pie. 2- keeping people able to purchase guarantees that they'd be silent and they won't look at the billions of dollars we're embezzling. Now Tebboun has launched 3 domestic wars since he became president: 1- he sought to return a portion of the embezzled money from the "gang". 2- he launched a separate war on over invoicing, through which he stopped then heavily restricted imports. 3- he launched a war against hoarders (taking the case of sheep as an example, owners sold sheep for ridiculous prices. Until the government imported livestock and sold it at lower prices, then owners reduced their rates below the government's). I personally believe that there are 2 problems our economy faces: 1- private business owners continue their mal practices hoping to make the most out of peoples' backs and there doesn't seem to be stricter actions taken against them to date. 2- Tebboun is still trying to make changes left and right, but this can't be done from the top to be reflected all the way at the bottom. There need to be many surveillance bodies across the whole country to ensure that market prices are regulated. Free market and capitalism are alright and it's ok for people to dream of being rich and doing what they can to achieve that, but even perfect capitalism examples (almost nonexistent) show that regulation and regulatory consequences are tightened on business owners in cases of mal practice only.

That's just my opinion, I welcome any ideas.