However, noted the minister, “the most vulnerable categories, i.e. 20% of the poorest population, only benefit from 14% of this support, while the wealthiest categories, i.e. the richest 20%, benefit to the tune of 27%, double what the most deprived categories receive.
However, for the moment, the increase in butane gas is not on the government’s agenda, reassured the Minister Delegate, in response to an oral question on “the impact of the increase in the price of gas in Morocco”, posed by the socialist group – Ittihadi opposition, in the House of Representatives.
For the Minister Delegate, “the real problem of support for butane gas, as for other subsidized products, lies in the absence of targeting of beneficiaries”, adding that “the government and the different components of Parliament are called upon to find the mechanisms most effective to ensure that this support fully reaches the deprived categories for whom it was established.
Direct support, through targeted monetary transfers to vulnerable categories, is, according to the government official, “the most appropriate solution”, because, he explains, “these categories deserve this aid, just as they must benefit from the margins budgetary benefits that the government can generate by optimizing this system.
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