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- Economy
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- Overview: After registering a robust 10% growth in 1988,
- the economy slowed in 1989 because of higher prices for
- food and oil imports, lower worker remittances, and a trade
- dispute with India over phosphoric acid prices that cost
- Rabat $500 million. To meet the foreign payments shortfall,
- Rabat has been drawing down foreign exchange reserves. Servicing
- the $22 billion foreign debt, high unemployment, and Morocco's
- vulnerability to external forces remain severe problems
- for the 1990s.
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- GDP: $21.9 billion, per capita $880 (1988); real growth rate 4.5%
- (1989 est.).
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- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6% (1989).
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- Unemployment rate: 15% (1988).
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- Budget: revenues $5.1 billion; expenditures $6.0 billion,
- including capital expenditures of $1.4 billion (1988).
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- Exports: $3.1 billion (f.o.b., 1989); commodities--food
- and beverages 30%, semiprocessed goods 23%, consumer goods
- 21%, phosphates 17%; partners--EC 58%, India 7%, Japan 5%,
- USSR 3%, US 2%.
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- Imports: $5.1 billion (f.o.b., 1989); commodities--capital
- goods 24%, semiprocessed goods 22%, raw materials 16%, fuel
- and lubricants 16%, food and beverages 13%, consumer goods 10%;
- partners--EC 53%, US 11%, Canada 4%, Iraq 3%, USSR 3%, Japan 2%.
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- External debt: $22.2 billion (1989).
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- Industrial production: growth rate 4% (1989 est.).
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- Electricity: 2,140,000 kW capacity; 7,760 million kWh produced,
- 300 kWh per capita (1989).
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- Industries: phosphate rock mining and processing, food processing,
- leather goods, textiles, construction, tourism.
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- Agriculture: 50% of employment and 30% of export value;
- not self-sufficient in food; cereal farming and livestock
- raising predominate; barley, wheat, citrus fruit, wine,
- vegetables, olives; fishing catch of 491,000 metric tons
- in 1987.
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- Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis; trafficking
- on the increase for both domestic and international drug
- markets; shipments of cannabis mostly directed to Western
- Europe; occasional transit point for cocaine from South
- America destined for Western Europe.
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- Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $1.2 billion;
- Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
- (1970-87), $6.3 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $4.8
- billion; Communist countries (1970-88), $2.3 billion.
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- Currency: Moroccan dirham (plural--dirhams); 1 Moroccan
- dirham (DH) = 100 centimes.
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- Exchange rates: Moroccan dirhams (DH) per US$1--8.093 (January
- 1990), 8.488 (1989), 8.209 (1988), 8.359 (1987), 9.104 (1986),
- 10.062 (1985).
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- Fiscal year: calendar year.
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