The Moroccan Middle Class: How to make it come out of the dark?

Wednesday 29 October 2008-Hotel Hyatt Regency, Casablanca

The Middle Class is a pillar of society through its role in changing and stabilizing society, its political system by the Minister of Health underlined   the Moroccan Health Minister Mrs. Yasmina Badou, at a workshop organized by the Amadeus Institute and Club Entreprendre.

The Amadeus Institute and Club Entreprendre carried out interventions during a study of ‘The Middle Class in Morocco.’ Mrs Badou reminded that the governmental policies on the economic plans, fiscal and social trends were to reinforce the emergence and the perineum of the middle class and to consolidate the social dialogue.

Emphasizing concerns by the middle class related to health and social security, the Minister underlined the importance contribution brought about by the Health National Strategy in increasing the middle class social base in Morocco.
She proposed to remind the audience about the results of surveys on youth and young children made in 2007 on the basis of samples from 8,000 households and on a population and family health which was carried out in 2004 on the basis of a sample of 12,000 households. These were made of a leverage of the growing middle class in the action plan 2008-2012

It concerns the enlargement of basic medical care through a financial mechanism that implements the adoption of a policy on Aids testing and covers chronique illnesses that prevent the fight towards poverty, as well as the instauration of the free obstetrical and medicinal care.

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