Creative State by Natasha Iskander

Author:Natasha Iskander [Iskander, Natasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Emigration & Immigration
ISBN: 9780801462245
Google: KWh5DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011-06-15T03:29:57+00:00

Regional Development: A Strategic Choice

Only weeks after his accession, Mohammed VI laid out his plans for the new priorities on which Morocco’s economic development was to focus. In his second public speech after his father’s death, he promised a developmental strategy that would leave no one out, especially the most needy, toward whom he felt “a special solicitude and care” (Mohammed VI 1999a). Moreover, he placed special emphasis on the needs of the rural poor, who represented over 75 percent of the kingdom’s poor (H. Levy 2004), and argued that Morocco could not develop as a nation unless it dealt with the poverty that had settled on it as a permanent scourge:

How shall we as a nation achieve national development if our rural area struggles with problems that force its inhabitants to abandon their lands . . . because of a lack of strategy of integrated development, based on the organization of agricultural activities and others [in rural areas], because of a lack of interest that should have been devoted to their living conditions and education, to the provision of basic infrastructure, to stemming the exodus [from rural areas] by putting into effect a plan that promotes the participation of local communities, that creates new centers of development . . . and that manages the occasional disasters like drought and others? (Mohammed VI 1999a)

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