Morocco analysis

1. Introduction:

1. Country analysis:

Politic:

The kingdom of Morocco is a constitutional monarchy that has an elected parliament every five year; the parliament is composed by the chamber of representatives (395 deputies elected by universal direct suffrage) and the chamber of counselors (120 members elected by indirect universal suffrage for 6 years).

The executive power is lead by the government and hatched by the king Mohammed VI while the prime minister (Saadeddine Othmani) is guiding the government council, its role is to address the public and sectorial policies, their responsibility toward the chamber of representatives and also to solve the social and economical issues related to human rights, public order, regulation laws and the appointment of secretaries and directors of public administrations but in the other hand the government council only has a deliberative power in terms of general policy of the state, finance bills and international conventions. It’s the council of ministers that compromises the head of government and ministers sits who is responsible for the important decisions and the path to follow concerning the state policy.

Morocco has a strong relation with countries from the European union specially Spain, France, Turkey and China.  

Economic:

The Moroccan economy has progressed since 1980s, thanks to some reforms done by the king Hassan II. These reforms had to face the changing of the international situation, especially with the end of wars around the world and the new international environment strongly supportive of democracy.

Reforms applied by Hassan II aimed to improve Morocco’s record concerning human rights and the overall economical situation that has set up the right pillars and showed the line to follow for the next king.

A mixed expansion and recession alternating have marked the 1990s, after that decade and particularly since the enthronization in 1999 the economy has registered a steady growth, low inflation and a sequentially falling unemployment. This new era was characterized by a higher growth rate regardless of the uncertainty concerning the environment defined by rise of the price commodity.

On the other hand the economic foundations were shacked by some small crisis from 2008 to 2013 due to the slowdown of the world growth and also because of the consequence of the Arab spring in the region. Even with those micro-shocks Morocco’s economic achievements over the last 15 years have been substantial.

Actually morocco occupies the 4th position on the ranking of the best African economies indexing €106,6 billion as GDP, the contribution of sales fishing added to the industrial and mining sectors represent one third of the annual GDP, while the key sectors that heavily participate to the expansion of Morocco’s economy include agriculture, tourism, aerospace, automotive, phosphates and textiles.

        Social:

The country failed in the human development in the 1960s because investments were unable to pursue the fast grows of the population mainly in the urban areas.

Since then a persistent and stable evolution have been noticed due to multiples measures enacted by the government and social indicators have improved.

Human development policies were the center of attention for the deciders in the 1990s, as they established numerous and diverse anti-poverty programs regarding infrastructures, education, health care, justice and employment, aiming to carry out precarious situation from the poorest areas of the kingdom.

 The creation of projects such as the social priorities programs, social development and other initiatives to extend roads and bring electricity and drinking water in the rural areas has set up the right path to improve the situation for millions of Moroccans.

The impact on the day to day life of the citizens have been slightly better, in a structure of monitored inflation and the rise of the purchasing power, but despite the decrease of poverty in the country the social assistance instrument is far from being ideal considering the fact that it do not reach all the people, because in reality the efforts made are disunited and dispersed.

Technological:

Morocco has known a speedy evolution of technologies since 2000s many indicators can put the evidence on this situation, as the mobile equipment rate that is. 99.8%, with almost 73% of smartphones. From 2010 to 2017 the households with electronic devices have increased by 72%, moreover 62% of the population have access to internet which is above the world average (54%).

Apart from the communication industry morocco is defending it self quite well regarding new technologies, according to the observer research foundation (ORF) the country occupies the first place in the growth of the technology sector in the Africa-middle East region thanks to the new eco-system dedicated to new technologies.

        Environmental:

Geographically, morocco is a country in the Maghreb region located in northern Africa along the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It has always been a strategic position between Europe and Africa with strong geographic figures that lead to various and different environment and specific ecosystems making morocco the second richest biodiversity in the Mediterranean countries.

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