Moroccan economy generated 757,000 jobs in last four years
Morocco, Economics, 3/17/2005

The national economy generated 757,000 new jobs between 1999 and 2003, i.e 189,000 jobs per year, said, here Wednesday, the Minister of Employment and Vocational Training.

Mustapha Mansouri told MAP, on the sidelines of a parliamentary commission meeting on "graduates unemployment," that public service provided just 9.8% of jobs noting that this percentage decreased regularly during the last years since the private sector has become the first job provider with 76.6% in the urban area in the period between 1996 and 2003.

The minister said that unemployment rate declined during the last years from 13.9% in 1999 to 11.9% in 2003 to attain 10.9% during the third trimester of 2004. Unemployment in the rural area declined too from 22% in 1999 to 19.3% in 2003 to attain 18.9% during the first nine months of 2004.

To solve the unemployment problem, the government will organise the national employment convention on April. Political and economic actors alongside NGOs concerned with this issue will take part in the first edition of this convention that will tackle means to solve the problem through initiatives and measures to integrate graduates in job market especially in the private sector, he explained.

The government will also adopt measures to support employment in the private sector. These measures will include trainings on integrating the job market, supporting job contracts and sustaining job seekers who aspire to create their own small and medium-size enterprises (SME).

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