What are some of the benefits of investing in a greenfield manufacturing facility in Morocco?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Guy Hachey, President, Bombardier Aerospace from The Report: Morocco 2013
Articles & Analysis | A picture of health: Despite setbacks, local producers have maintained high standards from The Report: Morocco 2013
Estimated to be the second largest on the African continent after South Africa, Morocco’s pharmaceuticals sector is highly developed relative to many of its African neighbours. Currently, there are 32 pharmaceuticals plants present in the country, producing 293m units of drugs in 2011.
Located in the westernmost region of North Africa, Morocco has an impressively diversified economy and in recent years has benefited from steady growth. The country has strong trade links with the EU and has a young population – with the median age of its roughly 32m people at 27.3 years – which in turn provides the country with a large supply of available and comparatively skilled labour.
With a new set of laws set to be passed in 2013 to replace the existing mining code, the government is seeking to open the sector to additional foreign investment and offer more concessions to extract and process the country’s mineral wealth. Phosphates mining accounted for 92.7% of the sector’s total production in 2011. Other mineral resources include gold, silver, barite, cobalt, copper,...
Chapter | Industry & Retail from The Report: Morocco 2013
After experiencing a dip in growth from 2008 to 2010, the industrial sector is expanding once again, with government initiatives being put in place to boost value-added sectors such as aeronautics, automotive production and textiles. The industrial sector accounted for 32.3% of GDP and 23.8% of employment in 2011. A new development plan, the National Pact for Industrial Emergence, promises to...
Articles & Analysis | Women in the workplace: Blending traditional values with a modern work environment from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
In an effort to enable female workers to play a greater role in the economy, the Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON) announced in mid-2012 that it had begun to plan an industrial city that would make special provisions for women. Situated at Al Ahsa, near the eastern city of Hofuf, the industrial city will be near enough...