Brain drain

Articles

• Morocco Faces Annual Exodus of 600 Engineers Seeking Opportunities Abroad
  15 January 2019, by Said

  Some 600 engineers abandon Morocco each year to try their luck abroad.
  This figure was revealed by the Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, Said Amzazi, on Monday during an intervention at the House of Representatives.
  According to the minister, this brain drain phenomenon affects all countries. "It is a global trend linked to the mobility of skills seeking to benefit from more advantages and more attractive salaries in the host countries," he said.
  Indeed, the (…)

• Brain Drain: Thousands of Skilled Moroccan Professionals Migrate to France
  13 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  Data on the migration of Moroccan executives is worrying the Ministry of Employment and Professional Integration.
  In Parliament, the Minister of Employment and Professional Integration, Mohamed Amakraz, hammered that no contract on the recruitment of Moroccan skills abroad has been signed by Morocco since 2015.
  In total, 7,820 Moroccans have left their country for France by the end of September, including 1,529 as part of economic migration, according to statistics from the French (…)

• Morocco-France Tech Talent Exodus Sparks Debate on ’Win-Win’ Agreement
  21 May 2019, by Kamal

  600 to 800 IT engineers flee Morocco each year to join the French job market. This exodus is motivated above all by the attractive recruitment policy for talents: French Tech Visa.
  The brain drain of Moroccan talents benefits France more than Morocco. This massive migration of digital talents has been the subject of a debate between the Moroccan Minister of Industry, Investment, Trade and the Economy, Moulay Hafid ElAlamy and the French Secretary of State for Digital, Cédric O.
  "Today (…)

• Survey: 43% of Moroccans Consider Emigration as Youth Seek Opportunities Abroad
  26 June 2019, by Bladi.net

  A survey conducted by BBC News Arabic and Arab Barometer, a research network based at Princeton University in the United States, of 25,000 people from 11 countries in the MENA (Middle East/North Africa) region reveals that nearly one Moroccan in two (43%) is considering emigrating.
  According to the information reported by HuffPost Maroc, this survey was conducted between late 2018 and spring 2019. It turns out that one in five people is determined to emigrate in the various countries (…)

• Morocco Faces Exodus of Skilled Professionals as 10,000+ Executives Leave Country
  26 June 2019, by Kamal

  The brain drain of Moroccans to other skies continues to grow. No less than 10,430 executives have left the Kingdom, including 1,200 businessmen and 630 doctors.
  Istiqlali deputy Omar Hjira deplores the departure of Moroccan skills who have chosen to benefit other countries with their professional qualifications. 1,200 businessmen, 630 doctors and 600 engineers have chosen to join the Moroccan community abroad, for lack of attention from the country’s authorities.
  According to the daily (…)

• Brain Drain Crisis: Morocco Loses 600+ Engineers Annually to Europe
  13 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  Like other African countries, Morocco is affected by the growing problem of brain drain. This deep-rooted evil that is gnawing at the Kingdom has been the subject of a report by the Franco-German channel, Arte.
  Young Moroccans, especially the most educated, prefer to sell their skills in the hexagon and elsewhere. According to the data in the report, these Moroccans leaving the Kingdom are counted at around more than 600 engineers and computer developers. They settle in Europe, mainly in (…)

• Morocco’s Tech Talent Exodus: Young Professionals Seek Higher Pay Abroad
  20 February 2020, by Sylvanus

  Zakaria, 28, an IT engineer for Capgemini in Casablanca, is an example. This young man joined Paris in July 2018, where he works in a bank. "As an employee in Morocco, I paid 40% tax to receive 7,000 dirhams net per month [665 euros]. In France, I am paid 44,000 euros per year; my purchasing power has clearly increased to perform the same work," he told the newspaper Le Monde. Like Zakaria, many young Moroccans are leaving the kingdom for abroad.
  They are looking for more qualified (…)

• Brain Drain: Over 6,000 Moroccan Doctors Work in France Amid Home Country Shortage
  1 January 2021, by Bladi.net

  Nearly 6,150 doctors are working in French hospitals while Morocco suffers from a severe shortage of health personnel.
  During a session devoted to questioning government members on various subjects, the Islamist parliamentarian indicated that 20% of the 8,000 graduates from Moroccan higher education institutions, specialized in the fields of information and communication technologies, are leaving the country. According to Abdelali Hamieddine, the equivalent of the number of engineers (…)

• Morocco Seeks Foreign Tech Talent to Address IT Skills Shortage
  6 March 2019, by Amine

  Morocco "produces" about 8,000 IT (information technology) profiles annually and about 600 of them choose to work elsewhere. ANAPEC and APEBI have found two solutions: facilitating the recruitment of foreign skills and training more Moroccan profiles.
  It is clear that the question is not to stop the hemorrhage but rather to deal with it. Anapec and Apebi, the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills and the Moroccan Federation of Information Technology, (…)

• Moroccan Athletes Defect to European Teams for Doha World Championships
  26 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  From September 27 to October 6, 2019, several Moroccan athletes who have turned their backs on the Kingdom will represent Europe at the Doha World Championships. This exodus of athletes is becoming more and more widespread, but it is curiously leaving the authorities concerned indifferent.
  Morocco is losing its brilliant sons, its born competitors in the field of athletics. Now naturalized, they will wear the colors of certain European countries at the upcoming Doha World Championships, (…)