, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …

This paper studies Morocco's growth and employment prospects in the context of a new growth model aimed at allowing the … automation of low-skilled jobs, to avoid falling into a middle-income trap. The first part reviews the growth model that Morocco … in Morocco. The paper concludes that to achieve high-income status and reduce unemployment significantly, Morocco will …

capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move … governments throughout the economy sought to capture these rents by developing high margin industries. Continued reform, and …, leading local governments to impose a variety of interregional barriers to trade. Thus, the reform process led to the …