Unemployment rate in Morocco drops under ten per cent
2006-05-11
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The Moroccan unemployment rate fell to 9.8 per cent in the first quarter of this year -- from 11.3 per cent in the year-earlier period, the High Commissioner for Planning revealed, noting the figure was below 10 per cent for the first time in 35 years. About 506,000 paid jobs were generated this year, including 106,000 in construction and public works, 46,000 in forestry and fishing and 75,000 in services.
At a press briefing Wednesday (10 May), National Agency for Employment Promotion head Kamal Hafid said his agency's new projects, along with other governmental development programmes, aim at integrating filling 200,000 more jobs by the end of 2008. According to economic analysts, Morocco must double job creation to 400,000 annually for the next 20 years in order to prevent mass unemployment. (MAP)
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محسن Posted 2006-10-29
A quick solotion must be found!
Anonymous Posted 2007-01-21
i live in usa now.before i suffered jobless for more than ten years.i know that agency more than anyone.it is good for nothing .all u see in its site is only nonesense.dont trust all what is written about the unemployment drop in morocco.however,the unemployment increased in morocco to more than twenty per cent.we can say that morocco is the first country of corruption in the world.i hope my message will be read by a great number of jobless or those who are seeking for job.
hcn Posted 2007-02-02
No my friend, what you have written is not true. You don't live in Morocco, so you don't know know what really happens here... I am a young graduate and I work, and there are many more like me. I think that things in Morocco are really moving- the problem is that we, the Moroccan people, never say that Morocco is good and aren't proud of our country. I don't know. pk
abdo Posted 2007-02-17
I need information on unemployment in Sous!
rmrq Posted 2007-07-13
Without the entry of foreign call centres, all Morocco would have been unemployed as most young people work in this sector. You should just be fluent in French to work and get a monthly wage. It's no longer important for young people to get high degrees. But this will affect the cultural level of Moroccans in general, the level of unemployment will increas moreand the educational level will drop. As soon as young people get their baccalaureate, they're authorized to work as a call centre agent, and once this young man turn 30 or over, he's sacked without any compensation and other young people are recruited in the same way. There'll be a new form of unemployment in Morocco, unemployment of people over 30 and they will join the graduates who dream of public function. And we'll never get rid of the nightmare of unemployment, and it will become a ghost haunting Morocco.
أحمد Posted 2007-08-25
In the name of God. I personally think that Morocco will suffer unemployment for decades for many reasons, including corruption which is a plight and big untamed monster, we see it everywhere without exception...As to the elections, they're not exempt from corruption and fraud. As to my opinion of Morocco, I'm very proud of it given its natural diversity.
المغرب Posted 2007-10-05
All this is nonsense, Morocco is the first country in Morocco in terms of development.
واحد الراجل Posted 2007-10-21
This is nonsense without any foundation in reality. They consider those who earn 10 dirhams a day among the working class in Morocco and in a comfortable life while there are those who earn 10000 a day and transfer it to their accounts in Switzerland, and they consider the two equal as workers (go and look for someone else to tease, we no longer believe this talk).
Mounir Posted 2007-11-01
Are we just going to keep talking about this negativity, every where i turn and everyone i talk to, always something negative to say. Its this negativity that keeps us down from doing any good. But honestly us as individuals living outside of morocco have a lot we can do personally to help our country. If any of us who isnt in a situation like the poor in morocco have the ability to do something for our people then i suggest we do it, we should team with intellectuals on the both sides of the globe and work together. I look at a country like the UAE and then look at morocco and i think i wish that was us. They might have all that oil but the fact that they have that oil and didn't turn out like iraq put hope in my heart that Morocco has a chance of being great. I believe the entrepreneurial spirit will eventually help phase out corruption because a country that trying to compete in the world can't live with mass corruption. and if people are living in decency and can stand up on there own two feet they will send there children to school, and then it will eventually get better.
سلمى Posted 2007-11-12
The unemployment rate doesn't exceed 18% in cities, and mainly concerns young people, graduates and women. Poverty touches 4 million Moroccans. Social discrepancies are still deep, as 10% of the rich population spend 30% of the public expenditure, whereas 10% of the poorest populations have a share of 2.5% of these expenditures. Moreover, 70% of the parents consider that their standard of life is stagnating or has recessed.
فاطمة Posted 2007-11-12
I want to clear one point; Morocco isn’t the first country in the world in terms of development, because Morocco, unfortunately, still suffers of banal social problems such as unemployment, poverty and illiteracy as well. So we should firstly get rid of them, find solutions to solve or rather reduce them.
ريم Posted 2007-12-07
Honestly, there's a high rate of unemployment and I will defend my statement by all means.
achraf Posted 2007-12-13
Hi everyone, I want to say that I don't agree with you because unemployment in Morocco is always on the rise, I hope that that it
بدر Posted 2007-12-13
Unemployment is a shame on Morocco.
حسن المغربى Posted 2008-02-07
My dear brothers, Morocco is very nice and the most beautiful thing in terms of its natural climate, fertile ground and profitable sea. We all know that Morocco is a suitable country for agriculture, tourism and investment in different fields. I’m one of the people who loves this country as much as I love myself. Believe me my brothers. But unfortunately some officials namely and 90% of Moroccan people in general are the cause of what we endure now my dear brothers. I don’t blame the government for what we are, honestly and without compliments; it is known that I don’t fear saying the truth whatever the price. But I blame citizens. In my experience in parliamentary elections I discovered that weakness and fraud is part of us, citizens, and not the government, in manipulating results. I think that the government is far from that in these recent elections, except some officials, and they’re very few. But the biggest problem is with citiens, they don't care about the reputation, work or honesty of the candidate in his work, but, but you should either be famous in your country or else resort to bribery. My dear brothers, I don’t praise myself, but for the love of my country, nation and our king Mohamed VI I presented myself as candidate in the elections not for the sake of a post or chair which I will boast of to my Moroccan brothers, but to work out of love for my country. But the benefits ultimately go to the rich, and this is of course with the choice of citizens without any manipulation by the government. And as I said, the problem is with us the citizens, I don’t say this because I lost a parliamentary seat, but there are some candidates who are far better than me in terms of faithfulness and work for the country, but their results were even lower. So we are the cause. I hope to get a reply from you dear brothers. Salaam alaikoum.
l7ansh Posted 2008-02-22
Our country is enflamed with collusion and corruption. In my opinion, we need to expel all of these barbarians who are standing in the way of our country so that we can move forward!
نورا Posted 2008-04-07
Thank you for this text. It has helped me with my research on unemployment in Morocco in 2008 and I received the grade of 18.5. Salam.
reda Posted 2008-09-27
This is a considerable effort worthy of commendation, unemployment being faced with domestic and foreign investment and a marked improvement in sectors like tourism and offshoring. Poverty—and I mean true poverty, which was defined of the United Nations as the rung of people who earn less than $1.25/10 dirhams a day and represent somewhat near 9.8% of the national minimum wage statistics—remains to be taken care of at its basis: education, health care and justice. God willing, we will counteract the catalysts of unemployment and poverty.
Anonymous Posted 2008-10-23
I want unemployment in Morocco.
سلمى Posted 20 days ago
I think that the unemployment rate in Morocco has dropped.
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