Returning home is now the choice of many Moroccans living abroad (MRE). On the web, groups have even been created to spread this idea of returning to Morocco. Among them, the Facebook group “I decided to settle in Morocco”, which has no less than 150,000 members, most of whom are MRE exchanging their experiences and advice on the journey back to the kingdom, or even the Instagram page “Living in Morocco”, with 8,000 subscribers sharing advice and tips regularly. According to the latest data communicated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are 5.1 million Moroccans living abroad, or approximately 15% of the Moroccan population.
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The phenomenon arouses the curiosity of 2M. The channel devotes a full program to it to understand. It easily appears that returning home is not just escaping an austerity, racist context; but also the desire of MREs to join dynamic regions, and to undertake business there, while maintaining links with their adopted countries. “Industrial units, real estate, sports halls, commercial franchises, catering and pastries: the spectrum of their activities is wide and varied, as is the battery of measures to encourage them to invest in Morocco. Tax incentives, subsidies, support and guidance through the Regional Investment Centers…”, learns Challenge after watching the show.
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“A significant part of Morocco’s future development will depend on its talent capital: the number of engineers trained per year (China: 1.3 million, India: 1.5 million, Morocco: 10,000) and the number of young people in paid vocational training alternating between education and business (1.3 million in Germany),” confides economist Abdeghani Youmni. He says he is convinced that Morocco could become, in the coming decades, the equivalent of South Korea in Africa.
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