Multidimensional Poverty in Morocco: An Exploratory Spatial Approach

Eduardo Haddad, Inácio Araújo, Zineb Sijelmassi Idrissi () and Youness El Bouazzaoui ()

No 2022_12, Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

Abstract: In spite of the overall decrease in poverty in Morocco in the recent past, the pace of change did not affect regions equally. Poorer provinces faced slower reductions, increasing the relative gap in poverty indicators. In this paper, we explore the results of a multidimensional poverty indicator produced by the High Commission for Planning (HCP), the Moroccan official statistical agency, for the period 2004-2014. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (IPM) allows investigating the spatial aspects of different dimensions of poverty in the country. We find a clear spatial process underlying the distribution of the IPM. Moreover, the analysis undertaken at the province level suggests a persistent poverty hot spot in the northeast part of the country associated with poor infrastructure. Other poverty areas are more heavily associated with low quality of public services, particularly education and health. We provide a typology of geographically targeted sectoral policies, showing that there is no single recipe for all regions, since structural features matter.

Keywords: Spatial analysis; Multidimensional poverty; Policy targeting; Morocco (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-03-24
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Working Paper: Multidimensional Poverty in Morocco: An Exploratory Spatial Approach (2020)
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