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Weekly highlights

Low female activity rate

How to reverse the trend

“W OMEN deserve better economic and social integration
of women and greater participation in
more. Their em-
development efforts. This concerns
powerment is the
empowerment of all
stereotypes, particularly in the field of
of society”. This is the call launched among other things the fight against
by the Nigerian female entrepreneur employment.
Yetunde Adeyemi, during the meeting The telework model would in par-
organized by the World Bank, around ticular ensure this balance. The pay
women empowerment. On Tuesday gap between men and women for
in the city of Benguerir, in the Mar- the same function is also one of the
rakech area. This is the first meeting in aberrations to be combated, say our
a cycle of conferences in anticipation sources.
of the World Bank annual meetings Currently, Morocco, like other
scheduled for this year in Marrakech. countries, particularly in Africa, “suf-
For Hicham El Habti, president of the fers from a low rate of participation of
Mohammed VI Polytechnic Univer- women in the economy”, according to
Jesko Hentschel, Country Director for
sity, which hosted this event, “gen-
der equality is a permanent action”. the Maghreb and Malta at the World
Bank, who highlighted international
This must start at school, according to experiences, particularly in Southeast
the various stakeholders. Hicham El Asia, where the performance of cer-
Habti, recalled that in Africa, “40% tain countries in terms of development
of girls reach secondary school. Only is linked to the empowerment of wo-

half make it to the end of the course”, For Axel Van Trotsenburg, World Bank Managing Director of Operations, “if women men. Today, the transformations that
hence the importance of deploying de- worked as much as men, this would result in a 20% increase in GDP per capita”, hence the world is experiencing, especially
dicated strategies to promote women’s the call to fight against the obstacles to their access to employment on the digital level as well as the tran-
empowerment and the consecration of Nadia Fettah highlighted the according to the Minister, in particular sition to the green economy, are the
gender equality, said for her part Nadia launch in Morocco of the Tamkine by promoting the reduction of poverty key to the revival of economies in the
Fettah, Minister of Finance, for whom (Empowerment) program, aimed in and exclusion, through the strengthe- world, it is indicated. “This requires
this equality must involve different particular at ensuring better inclusion ning of women’s capacities and their new skills, and it is important to think
aspects, in particular in terms of access of women. The National Initiative for inclusion through income-generating about the future of employment”,
to education, health care, the economy, Human Development (INDH) has also activities. Nadia Fettah insisted on a stressed Hentschel.o
and other aspects. played an important role in this regard, series of focus areas that will allow M.A.M.

Social Security

The «revenants» of the CNSS

T HEY operate in the trade, noted that 25,945 companies, the (US $ 1,000) to 50,000 MAD (US clared for an average of 4.6 months.
construction, or services sec- majority of which employ between
$ 5,000), which refers to their size This figure that hides disparities:
tors. They have given a new 1 and 3 employees, did not make any
since the demographic ratio indicates 19% were for one single month, 16%
sign of life to the National So- declaration in 2021.
months. On the other hand, only 4%
and 3 employees.
cial Security Agency (CNSS) after Failing to give a precise idea of the that most companies have between 1 for two months, and 13% for three
having disappeared for a year, or they new companies created, the 2021 de- 2021, a year marked by the launch were declared for 12 months. This
have simply just registered recently. mographic report of the CNSS gives of the major social protection project, refers, among other things, to the pre-
These are companies that are giving a an account of the declared payroll, the saw an increase of 4%, at 3.5 million dominance of seasonal employment.
“sign of life” after having disappeared number of employees, or the sectors in the overall number of employees This being said, the average
from the CNSS radars for a year and concerned. declared at least once during the fi- monthly salary of incoming wage-
the newly insured. All these compa- Overall, the 46,148 incoming insu- nancial year. This year, during which earners stood at 3,007 Dirhams ver-
nies are called “incoming” compa- red companies declared 2.87 billion the growth rate reached 7.2% due to sus 5,292 gross Dirhams recorded
nies according to the CNSS jargon. dirhams (US $ 280,000,000) in terms the good performance of the agricul- for the entire population of private
In 2021, 46,148 incoming insured of payroll, of which 31% was carried tural sector and the strong increase sector employees. This average hides
companies were identified by CNSS, out by a handful of companies (228). in secondary activities as well as the large differences: 71% of incoming
a figure up 18% compared to 2020, These companies are found in the recovery of market services, was cha- employees earned less than 2,829 di-
characterized by the Covid-19 crisis. payroll bracket of 1 million dirhams racterized by a workforce of 621,861 rhams per month and 2% found them-
Of this number, 62.9% of newcomers (US $ 100,000) and more, and 54% “incoming” wage-earners of which selves in the range of 5,000 to 6,000
are first-time declarants. Faced with of insured companies are concentra- 355,830 are first-time applicants. dirhams.o
these “incoming” companies, CNSS ted in the range from 10,000 MAD These incoming employees were de- Khadija MASMOUDI
Friday 24 February 2023