Morocco

BMI View: Latest data from the Haut-Commissariat au Plan (HCP), Morocco's planning agency, shows that consumer price inflation stood at 2.2% y-o-y in March 2013, bringing the average... 2013-04-26

Morocco declared itself "satisfied" after the United Nations (UN) Security Council voted on April 25 to renew for another year the mandate of MINURSO, the UN mission... 2013-04-26

BMI View: We expect Morocco's public finances to remain under considerable strain over the year, and maintain our long-held view that the government's 2013 budget target, aiming to... 2013-04-15

BMI View: Consumer price inflation (CPI) in Morocco stood at 2.2% y-o-y in February 2013, the latest month of data available from the Haut-Commissariat au Plan, the country's planning... 2013-03-27

Moroccan police on March 25 violently dispersed a protest by separatists in the Western Sahara, according to reports from Algerian TV and human rights activists. The protest occurred... 2013-03-27

BMI View: Growth in bank lending saw a steady deceleration through H212, reaching only 4.5% y-o-y in December. The Moroccan Central Bank noted "the scope and sustained... 2013-02-21

Mohamed Abbadi has been elected as leader of Morocco's Justice and Charity Association (JCA), an outlawed opposition Islamist group that advocates the establishment of an Islamic state... 2013-02-21

BMI View: The Moroccan government has recently stepped up its support for potentially far-ranging structural fiscal consolidation measures, with reforms addressing the subsidy and pensions... 2013-01-29

Protests on November 21 by more than a thousand unemployed graduates in the Moroccan capital Rabat were broken up by police armed with batons. The protests - made up of different groups... 2012-12-19

BMI View: Morocco’s industrial production index rose by 1.5% y-o-y in Q312, according to newly released data by the Haut-Commissariat au Plan, the country’s planning... 2012-12-19