IMF Staff Country Reports

Morocco: Selected Issues

June 9, 2004

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International Monetary Fund. "Morocco: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 2004, 164 (2004), accessed 12/19/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451824735.002

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the recent developments in the Moroccan economy and its policy challenges over the medium term. It assesses the sustainability of public debt in Morocco. The paper uses the analytical framework for assessing debt sustainability in emerging market countries endorsed by the IMF Executive Board and compares Morocco’s vulnerabilities with those of the average emerging market country. The paper also examines the effects on Morocco’s trade pattern of the ongoing integration with the European Union within the Barcelona process.

Subject: Balance of payments, Exports, Government debt management, International trade, Outward remittances, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM), Remittances

Keywords: CR, East Africa, EU concession, EU export creation, EU relative, Europe, Exports, Global, Government debt management, ISCR, liberalization, liberalization effort, Middle East, Morocco, North Africa, Outward remittances, remittance, remittance inflow, Remittances, remittances in Morocco, Sub-Saharan Africa, trade creation, trade creation from the Barcelona process, workers' remittance

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Also available online in French.