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Morocco: Long-term vision brings economic transformation

Last year, Morocco’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 7.4 percent as the country proved itself to be, in the words of Jihad Azour, director of Middle East and Central Asia at the International Monetary Fund, “one of the most dynamic in adjusting and adapting to the constraints but also to the opportunities” presented by COVID-19.

Agility is a defining characteristic of the politically and economically stable North African nation which has, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, taken

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