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The proposed loan is designed to assist in the improvement of three technological institutes and to provide technical assistance for a pre-investment study of a fourth. The project would support the ongoing expansion and reorganization of technical education and help overcome manpower shortages in critical sectors of the economy such as agriculture, natural gas, mining and metallurgy, plastics, construction materials, mechanical construction and electrotechnology. The project would include: (i) a new technician center of the Algerian Petroleum Institute at Setif and expansion of another center at Oran; (ii) supplementary equipment for the new Institute of Mining and Metallurgy at Annaba; (iii) expansion of the Institute of Agricultural Technology at Mostaganem; and (iv) about 13 man-years of technical assistance to finance a pre-investment study of the Institute of Light Industry and to provide the services of specialists in educational materials and equipment procurement.