Handicraft sector in Morocco employs two million persons
Morocco, Economics, 4/6/2002

Some two million Moroccans work in handicraft, representing 20 percent of the active population in the country, the handicraft department said.

Handicraft contributed US$ 5.77 billion (67 billion dirhams) to Morocco's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2000, i.e. 19 percent. The sector's contribution to the GDP in 2000 was higher than that of agriculture -- a backbone of the Moroccan economy employing half of a 10-million workforce--, which contributed only 16 percent to the GDP in the same year.

Morocco's handicraft exports stood at US$ 52.58 million (610 million dirhams) in 1999. Foreign tourists paid US$ 379.31 million (4.4 billion dirhams) to buy Moroccan handicraft items, putting the sector's contribution to tourism receipts at 23 percent.

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