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USAID launches $ 34 million economic competitiveness programme in Morocco

Global Arab Network - - Rabih Serrai

Friday, 02 July 2010 13:18

Rabat - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a new programme dubbed " Morocco's economic competitiveness", worth 34 million dollars.

The new program focuses on improving Morocco's economic competitiveness by removing barriers to trade and investment and supporting key policy reforms, the USAID said in a statement.

The program also works to improve the capacity of key government institutions to implement these policies, supports public-private partnerships to promote workforce development opportunities and boosts increased agricultural growth and productivity by supporting water management and agriculture policies.

The program will be implemented in the regions of the Oriental and Doukkala, given their economic development and employment assets.

On the other hand, The Tunis-based African Development Bank (AfDB) loaned Morocco 100 million Euros to finance phase IV of the Public Administration Reform Support Programme (PARSP IV).

The programme aims at promoting strong economic growth and sustainable development with the aim to strengthen the economy's competitiveness while ensuring medium-term macro-economic viability, AfDB's statement said.

The programme is also meant to improve government efficiency in budget and human resource management, consolidate and control the civil service wage bill and streamline administrative procedures by developing electronic government.

"The intermediate beneficiaries are government services, households and private economic operators," the statement added.

The PARSP IV is co-financed with the World Bank and the European Union and is in line with the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness by supporting the implementation of reforms designed by Moroccan authorities to modernize their public administration, the statement concluded. (MAP)

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