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Unemployment rates fall in Morocco

24/06/2008

Morocco's urban unemployment has decreased 6.6% over the last nine years, while unemployment in rural areas fell from 5.4% to 3.8% over the same period, Minister of Employment and Vocational Training Jamal Rhmani said during a press briefing on Monday (June 23rd). In 2006, he added, some 300,000 jobs were created, double the annual average.