Moroccan government to start action on reform in government
Morocco, Politics, 10/30/1999

The Moroccan government on Thursday announced practical measures to address the situation that worsened social and economic disparities in the country.

The government will set up mechanisms to even social unbalances inherited from former policies, which led to the widening of social gaps and engendered poverty, Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi said at the weekly meeting of the Government Council.

Youssoufi underlined that the guidelines made by King Mohammed VI are a reference for the government's short- and long-term action and a strong backing for its initiatives to operate deep reforms.

Youssoufi said the Moroccan people closely follow the government's action to settle their problems. He noted that the people's assessment of such action is based on the cabianet's ability to show cohesion, maturity, loyalty and self-denial in the service of the citizen.

The Youssoufi government has been under fire, even by influential figures of the parties represented in the Cabinet, for having done "almost nothing" to settle the country's problems.

The prime minister announced urgent measures, including the creation of a strategic Commission for Administration Reform, which will convene a meeting on November 3 to examine problems pertaining to administrative ailments such as bureaucracy and corruption.

The setting up of a National Investment Agency is another major measure announced by the government in a bid to lower down all the obstacles that hinder the flow of foreign investments into the country.

Part of the drives to clean the climate in the administration and ensure a rational management of public funds, the government eliminated all bogus jobs it discovered in the administration.

Civil servants will also be banned to conduct commercial activities and to have more than one salary within the administration.

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