The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Morocco’s economic fundamentals and policy frameworks are sound as the government remains committed to reforms amid a positive macroeconomic outlook. Morocco’s policy priorities “include continued fiscal prudence and progress toward exchange rate flexibility, and reforms of taxation, governance, oversight of state owned enterprises, fiscal decentralization, and the business environment,” […]
After years of campaigning, the African Union (AU) is likely to become a member of the Group of 20 (G20) largest economies during or even before the New Delhi G20 Summit (9-10 September), though not everyone is excited about India’s push for the inclusion, with many pointing to Africa’s being a large continent with diverse […]
In a revealing article published on The Conversation, Algerian academic Manel Ismahane Rebbah attempted in vain to justify Algeria’s decades-long costly support for the Polisario Front in Western Sahara. Yet, her own analysis inadvertently underscores the growing legitimacy of Morocco’s autonomy plan and exposes the contradictions at the heart of Algeria’s foreign policy. Rebbah’s piece, […]
