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Executive Summary
This study is motivated by the poor accumulation of physical capital in the Maghreb countries,
the low levels of national savings and the inability to overcome this weakness through Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI). These factors have caused the necessity to find other sources for
growth. Thus, it is very important to develop an educational and training strategy to build human
capital and to address the needs of these economies. By improving the skills, shaping
competencies, developing efficacy and mobility of the labor, education will certainly contribute to
the enhancement of the Total Factor Productivity (PTF).
In this context, the main objective of the study is to evaluate the pace, the quality and nature of
the integration of the professional training graduates in the economies of Tunisia and Morocco.
This study is structured around five chapters:
Chapter 1 is dedicated to an in-depth analysis of professional training in Morocco. It puts
emphasis on the public policies and the reforms initiated in the eighties. After a historical
reminder on the genesis of professional training, Mr. Driss EL YACOUBI shows that this later
contributed, not only, to the improvement of the qualification rate of the persons who reach the
job market, but it also widely facilitated the linkages of the educational system with its economic
environment. However, in spite of this progress there are still needs of restructurings and the
strengthening the professional training instrument
Chapter 2 proposes a national development strategy and the requirements to review the
professional Training – Qualification instrument in Morocco. Having detailed the various phases
of the development of Morocco and the reforms organized by the Moroccan authorities in the
various branches of industry, Mr. Mohamed ELMERGHADI quantifies the sector-based needs
in professional training in connection with the emergence of new professions. After the success -
with mixed results, so far -, of macroeconomic reforms in Morocco since its independence, the
country is ready today to face the competition which dictated the opening in which Morocco has
widely adopted, with an increased emphasis on educational system.
Chapter 3 offers an analysis of institutional aspects of professional training in Tunisia. Mr. Jamal
BOUOIYOUR describes briefly the genesis of this system and pointed out that Tunisia in spite
of remarkable progress, suffers from some problems related to the low and partial integration of
the professional training system in the general system of training. We find this phenomenon in
Morocco also. In a more precise way, the implement of professional training turns out incapable
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