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A new cycle of growth is emerging. "Faithful" to a rather modest growth rate but without great volatility over the past decade, the Moroccan economy experienced a real departure from its trajectory with a recession in 2020 of -6.3%.

What Perspectives for public-private partnerships in promoting the energy transition in Africa ?

Attijariwafa bank CIB Perspectives on the Sub-saharian Africa Economies’ behavior toward the Covid-19 shock.

With $14.4 billion in assets under management as of end 2020, Wafa Gestion has just been ranked fifth in Forbes' international ranking of the largest asset managers in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Attijariwafa bank, a key regional player in the development of green infrastructure in Africa takes part to the Africa CEO Forum webinar.

The pandemic has put a spotlight on the continent’s fragile economy, but there is a path forward to help vulnerable countries climb out of a debt pit.

We had three reasons to believe that the SSA economies would be rather resilient facing the Covid-19 pandemic. We were referring to a foreseeable natural immunity of the Region citizens, to a pressure on the authorities to ease the barrier measures as well as to a limited exposure of SSA’s countries to the tourism sector. 

In a context of an economic shock, the ordinary balance in Morocco would go into negative territory for the first time since the 2012-2013 crisis with a deficit of MAD -15 Bn according to the 2020 AFA.

Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, African countries reacted differently. Their approach took into consideration, of course, the level of contamination, but also the economic priorities and the leeway available to each country. As a result, the economic impacts contrast from one country to another. [...]