Morocco Eyes Speedier Reforms After Gen Z ‘Wake Up’ Call
Demonstrators during a youth-led protest demanding reforms to public healthcare and education at Mohamed V square in Casablanca on Oct. 6.
Photographer: Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP/Getty ImagesMorocco must step up the pace of economic reforms and create more jobs for its youth, according to its finance minister, who described recent Gen Z protests as a “wake up call” for the kingdom.
“We can’t just be waiting for economic theories to work and jobs to come,” Finance and Economy Minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui said Tuesday in a panel discussion at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington, where she is attending meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. “Jobs have to come now.”