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Informal labour accounts for two-thirds of Morocco jobs, statistics agency reports

Informal labour accounts for two-thirds of Morocco jobs, statistics agency reports

TWO-THIRDS of Moroccan jobs are now in the grey economy, a statistics agency said, giving its first public assessment of a trend that the government says is depriving the economy of $3.4 billion annually. Nearly all the jobs in the agricultural sector, which represents 14% of the country's GDP, were informal, the HCP agency said in the study, putting the figure at 97%. But with recurrent drought blighting the sector, it expected fewer and fewer people to work in farming, with more people turning to the service sector. The services sector now offers 41% of all jobs in the country,…
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