حديث الثلاثاء: انعكاسات التضخم على الاقتصاد الكلي المغربي

This Policy brief was originally published on erf.org.eg Like many emerging and developing economies, Morocco has experienced a significant increase in public debt since the COVID-19 pandemic. Central government debt reached 69.6 percent of GDP in 2022, up from 60.3 percent in 2019, and overall public debt increased to 82.5 percent of GDP in 2022, well above the presumed critical threshold of 60 percent. Therefore, it becomes crucial to conduct a comprehensive debt sustainability a ...

Public policies, particularly those related to taxes and subsidies, should help to reduce poverty and inequality. However, the combination of components of these two systems, as implemented, leads sometimes to an increase in poverty and or inequality without being necessarily anticipated. In this policy brief, based on data from the 2019 wave of the Enquête Panel de Ménage from the Observatoire National du Développement Human from Morocco, we first highlight the influence of taxes ...

The role of the production network in shock propagation has been an issue of considerable interest since the Great Recession. However, the empirical literature has only focused on advanced and emerging countries. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap by examining the case of Morocco, a developing country belonging to the lower-middle-income group. The question is whether its production network is a factor in amplifying idiosyncratic industry-level shocks or, conversely, ...

This book was originally published on elibrary.imf.org   Throughout the past two decades, Morocco has faced several external and domestic shocks, including large swings in international oil prices, regional geopolitical tensions, severe droughts, and most recently the impact of the pandemic and the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Despite rough waters, the government stayed the course and remained focused not only on immediate stability, but also on the long-ter ...

This paper was originally published on mdpi.com   The labor market can be a daunting place for young graduates; this paper aims to shed light on how they navigate it. By examining the ways in which they enter the workforce and the impact of individual and socioeconomic factors on their career paths, we gain a deeper understanding of the challenges they face. We use a two-stage approach to study this issue: first, we create a typology of graduates’ integration paths and then estima ...

Industrial history was written on Monday, May 15, 2023. Mohammed VI, the king of Morocco, celebrated in the Royal Palace a car from Neo Motors, the first ‘Made in Morocco’ car brand, helping drive the nation towards economic prosperity and social stability. Neo Motors vehicles, financed and built by Moroccan entrepreneurs, will soon compete globally with German, Italian, Japanese and Korean cars. The ‘Neon’ (offered for an estimated 170,000 dirhams, or $15,000) will be assembled and ...