Morocco’s Economic Progress Highlighted on French TV as ’Singular’ Success Story

The "La librairie de l’éco" program of Emmanuel Lechypre on the French channel BFMTV, devoted one of its editions to Morocco with guests such as Abdelmalek Alaoui, communication specialist and president of the Moroccan Institute of Strategic Intelligence, who directed the collective work "A Moroccan Path" and Alexander Kateb, lecturer at Sciences Po and author of "The Arab Economies in Motion".

The choice of this North African and Middle Eastern country is not insignificant. The star presenter of the show indicated that it is a zoom on Morocco, a country that has had the "most rectilinear trajectory", which has "remained sheltered from political turmoil" and which was "one of the first countries to undertake liberal economic reforms".

In their development, the two guests acknowledge that 1994 marked the opening of Morocco to the world with the signing, in Marrakech, of the GATT agreements, the dismantling of a number of tariff barriers and the Kingdom’s commitment to free trade agreements. Thus, thanks to this opening, the kingdom can trade with 54 countries thanks to the free trade agreements it has, explained the president of the Moroccan Institute of Strategic Intelligence.

Abdelmalek Alaoui, in his development, highlighted the elements that make Morocco’s singularity in its environment. Among these elements, he cited the macroeconomic and institutional trajectory and stability that allow the Kingdom to overcome a number of pitfalls. For the speaker Alaoui, Morocco was not hit by the "Arab Springs", because of the anticipatory reforms undertaken by King Mohammed VI, since the beginning of the 2000s, the creation of the Equity and Reconciliation Instance "very important for the memorial work on what happened before the accession to the throne of the Sovereign" as well as the major projects launched.

"The king’s first bet was to prepare all the infrastructures that are capable of initiating this economic takeoff," justified Abdelmalek Alaoui, recalling the recent establishment of a special commission responsible for reflecting on the new development model.