The Korea Times
CASABLANCA — In 2023, Morocco crossed a critical threshold when the value of its automobile exports surpassed its revenues from phosphates, the mineral resource that had anchored the country’s economy for at least a century. Defying expectations, a country with no oil, no gas, and no other obvious resource advantages had become the most dynamic automotive hub in the Mediterranean. But this was no miracle. It was something more useful: a case study in economic method. When Morocco gained independence in 1956, it inherited a colonial administration designed to extract resources, not to develop the economy. Access to higher education had been ruthlessly rationed. A mere 1,395 students completed secondary school that year, and barely 2,000 university students were enrolled nationwide. There were effectively no lawyers trained to write legislation, no economists to draft a budget, and no engineers to run a port. So, Morocco turned to the one group that the colonial system had not thought to restrict: doctors. Physicians who had studied in France became ambassadors, ministers, and even p
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