Poor harvest causes job loss in Morocco
2008-05-14
The number of jobs in Morocco fell 1.7% to just under 11 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, due to a 3.5% decline in rural agricultural jobs, the High Commission for Planning reported in a study titled "Activity, Labour and Unemployment". Last year's poor harvest was largely to blame for the shrinking rural labour market.
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