Headlines Morocco

Morocco’s King, Mauritanian President Voice Shared Determination to Preserve their Countries’ Relationship

King Mohammed VI of Morocco and President Mohammed ould Abdelaziz of Mauritania have voiced their shared determination to preserve the neighborliness and solidarity relationship existing between their two countries and to shield this relationship against any attempts to undermine it, whatever the origin or motivation of these attempts. This came during a phone call King […]

Finance Headlines Morocco

Public Sector’s Payroll Takes 49% of Morocco’s Revenues

The Payroll in the public sector absorbs 49% of state revenues, a percentage that shows the burden placed on the state budget because of an inefficient employment policy, says a study conducted by L’Economiste daily newspaper. The public sector’s payroll is in dire need of restructuring to mitigate its impact on the state budget after […]

Portrait Profile

Moroccan Nizar Baraka, Finance Minister of the Year 2013

After he had been elected best Finance Minister for the MENA region for 2012 and Minister of Finance of the year 2012 by the «The Banker», a magazine of the Financial Times press group, Morocco’s former Minister of Economy and Finance, Nizar Baraka, earned another consecration in 2013, this time from the World Bank and […]