Morocco - Country Private Sector Diagnostic

Overview & Synopsis

This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) examines how Morocco can accelerate private investment and job creation to support its transition toward a more inclusive, competitive, and green growth model. While Morocco has achieved sustained macroeconomic stability and significant infrastructure development, private investment remains below potential and job creation has lagged, particularly for youth and women. Adopting an investor-centric perspective, the report identifies four high‑potential subsectors, decentralized solar power generation, low‑carbon textiles, argan oil and natural‑cosmetics manufacturing, and marine aquaculture, where targeted and feasible policy reforms could unlock substantial private capital. Across these sectors, the CPSD diagnoses key regulatory, institutional, and market constraints and proposes concrete policy actions to address them, while highlighting critical cross‑cutting enablers such as access to low‑carbon energy, streamlined permitting, skills development, and traceability infrastructure. If implemented, the recommended reforms could catalyze up to 7.4 billion dollar in private investment and generate more than 166,000 new jobs in the medium term, reinforcing Morocco’s jobs agenda and advancing its green and regionally balanced development objectives.