Educational level: Continuing education / Executive education programs.
Course summary (Doing business in Morocco)
Doing business in Morocco. Sectors: tourism, industry, fishing, water, housing. Foreign direct investment. U.S. Free trade agreement. Privatization.
The economic and social development which has been taking place in Morocco during the last decades allowed to set up the basic infrastructures of the
national economy and answer the socio-educational needs of the population. Several sectors grew considerably such as tourism, industry, fishing, water, housing, etc.
This development brought about an increasing exploitation of Natural resources and a degradation of the environment due to the emission of liquid, gas and
solid discharges in the absence of technical and statutory measures which can face this degradation (the cost of the environment
degradation exceeded 8 % of the GDP.
United States Morocco Free Trade
Agreement (FTA):
Example of the course Doing business in Morocco
(French):
According to the results of the general population and housing census in 2004, the population of Morocco reached 29.891.708 inhabitants, including 29.840.273 Moroccans and 51.435
foreigners. That is to say a 14,6 % progress in comparison to 1994. Regardless of its geographic localization on the national territory, the population
comprises 16.463.634 city-dwellers against 13.428.074 countrymen, i.e. an urbanization rate amounting to 55,1 %.
The biggest incentive for businesses hoping to invest in Morocco is the Morocco - U.S. Free trade agreement, a measure that offers American
exporters greater access to Moroccan markets, and gives U.S. businesses based in Morocco
virtually unlimited access to markets in Europe
(Union for the Mediterranean), North Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey.
Is beneficiary of the Cotonou Agreement (European Union)
- European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). Member of Arab Mediterranean Free trade agreement (Agadir Agreement), Islamic Development Bank, Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC) ...
In the early 1980s, the government began an ambitious privatization program that called for the sale of many state-run enterprises, including portions of the
energy sector. The 1989 Privatization Law accelerated the sale of state-owned sectors; to date, the sales push has resulted in the commercial acquisition of 114 companies.
Business, Morocco, Moroccan, economy, foreign trade, Rabat, Casablanca, Tanger, Doing business, Sectors, tourism, industry, fishing, water, housing, foreign direct investment, U.S. Free trade agreement, Privatization, Master, international business
EENI International Business
