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Morocco Launches Ambitious Plan to Upgrade Industrial Sector

Morocco launched on Wednesday an ambitious plan meant to foster industrial growth, reinforce the country’s economic resilience, and confirm its place among emerging nations. At a ceremony chaired by King Mohammed VI, Minister of Industry Moulay Hafid Elalamy presented the details of the new 2014-2020 industrial growth strategy, which represents “an evolution of emergence towards […]

Tunisia: Talks with IMF for new financing program start Monday

Tunisia is starting this Monday formal talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a credit line to be used to prop up the sluggish economy of the North African country, a source at the Central Bank of Tunisia (CBT) told state-run news agency TAP. The team of the Washington-based international financial institution is expected […]

Workshop in Rabat on LIBOR Reform & Morocco’s New Money Market Benchmark

Morocco’s Central Bank, Bank Al-Maghrib, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development organized on Wednesday in Rabat a workshop on London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) reform and the new money market benchmark in the North African country. Participants in the workshop discussed the implications of changes in the benchmark indexes used on the international […]