EBRD President pays first visit to Morocco EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso made her first official visit to Morocco in a virtual format on 24 and 25 May. She held high-level meetings with the Moroccan authorities, the business community and civil society. Meetings focused on Morocco’s post-Covid-19 recovery and EBRD investments to support it. In an interview with the newspaper Aujourd’Hui le Maroc, the EBRD President said: “The EBRD’s new strategic framework focuses on three main priorities, namely the strengthening of social cohesion and the reduction of regional disparities for an inclusive growth, the facilitation of a private sector led economy by improving competitiveness and supporting Morocco s governance reform programme as well as increasing the transition to the green economy through more sustainable energy and infrastructure.”
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Can Morocco become the next « African Hub » of the pharmaceutical industry? Tuesday, April 20, 2021 4:26 AM UTC
Since the start of the pandemic, all eyes are on the pharmaceutical industry. In Morocco, this sector constitutes the second largest chemical activity after phosphates and occupies the second place on the African continent, where the local production of medicines is one of the main weak points. Producing only 3% of its drug consumption and importing 95% of its needs, Africa faces a major challenge in terms of access to medicines, to which is added the Covid crisis, which has highlighted the structural fragility of the continent s pharmaceutical industry.