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Interviews & Viewpoints | Mohamed Nabil Benabdallah, Minister of Housing and Urban Policy: Interivew from The Report: Morocco 2015
Interviews & Viewpoints | Zhor Kabbaj, Director-General, Softgroup Immobilier: Interview from The Report: Morocco 2015
Chapter | Construction & Real Estate from The Report: Morocco 2015
After a slowdown in recent years, Morocco’s construction industry saw a return to growth in 2014 and continues to be driven by strong demand for housing, public spending on infrastructure and investor incentives from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Policy – though constraints on credit access are restricting the volume of new developments. A unified construction code designed to raise...
Benefitting from strong ties to both Europe and the Arab world, Morocco has the right ingredients for future growth: low inflation, political stability, an industrial base and a favourable climate. With the outlook improving for Morocco’s trade partners and the lower price of oil – of which the country is a net importer – most observers expect growth to be even stronger in 2015, with estimates ranging from 4.4% to 5.0%.
Articles & Analysis | Gabon overcomes challenges to investing in construction from The Report: Gabon 2015
While the construction sector in Gabon has seen a slowdown compared to the boom in the years prior to co-hosting the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (Coupe d’Afrique des Nations, CAN), construction remains central to the state’s economic development plans. As part of an overarching goal to diversify the economy through the Emerging Gabon strategy,...
Articles & Analysis | Gabon starts spending big on affordable real estate from The Report: Gabon 2015
According to a report published by the French Ministry of Finance in 2014, more than 75% of the urban population in Gabon currently live without a land title in dwellings with limited access to basic services. With continued urban growth at an average rate of around 30,000 new city residents per year, the gap between housing supply and demand...