Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union

Bank Al-Maghrib & IMF Extend Investment Agreement

Morocco’s central bank (Bank Al-Maghrib ) has agreed to extend its investment agreement for the benefit of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) until 2022 in support of IMF’s concessional lending to low-income member countries. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), as Trustee of PRGT, has amended its 2012 investment agreement with Bank Al-Maghrib, through […]

Morocco launches comprehensive labor code reform for digital era

Morocco’s Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri, unveiled ambitious plans Thursday to overhaul the country’s labor code, addressing evolving work patterns, digital transformation, and generational shifts in employment expectations. Speaking at a conference-debate organized in Casablanca, Sekkouri outlined three fundamental dimensions driving the reform: societal changes, evolution of employment forms, […]

U.S. Think-Tank: Morocco’s Royal Atlantic Initiative seeks to reshape Sahel & Sub-Saharan regions

The initiative launched by King Mohammed VI offering Atlantic access to African landlocked countries seeks to reshape the geostrategic landscape of the Sahel and Sub-Saharan regions amid a wave of coups fueled by economic and social decline, said a U.S. think-tank. In an analysis on the royal initiative, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said the […]