
Private interests and Morocco’s economy
Since the mid-1990s (1) , Morocco’s economic and political decision-makers have pushed for the liberalisation, privatisation and the lowering of the trade barriers agenda that has been prevalent in the country since 1983. (2) Most public companies were sold.
Private interests and Morocco’s economy
Since the mid-1990s (1) , Morocco’s economic and political decision-makers have pushed for the liberalisation, privatisation and the lowering of the trade barriers agenda that has been prevalent in the country since 1983. (2) Most public companies were sold. Trade tariffs were lowered before Morocco signed numerous free trade agreements that were to bind it to several economic and financial zones. Exchange regulations were modified so that share dividends and revenues of foreign companies could be transferred abroad more freely.
Today, private interests are also increasingly present in the school and health sectors, because the state no longer has the means to cope with their financial needs. Citizens have been turned into clients through the introduction of the full-cost recovery principle, and they pay to contribute to the recovery of public expenses. The same management principles are quickly being implemented in the administration of basic public services like sanitation, roads, water and electricity distribution.
In the water sector in particular, the state justifies its new approach by the fact that water resources in the country are becoming scarce, which demands new management methods that supposedly cannot belong to the public non-profit sphere.



