Morocco: Culture As Engine For Economic Growth, Employment And Development

Said Temsamani

Eurasia Review - October 7, 2014

Many qualitiy studies and policies have for many years addressed the relationship between culture and economics. However, this relationship has taken different forms in different countries and regions. Furthermore, initially, studies took a sociological or, in any case, theoretical, approach. It is only relatively recently that the cultural sector has been formally studied from the perspective of economics and statistics. Therefore, only now is a framework being created of economic structures for the cultural sector. In fact, the cultural has proved on many occasions that it can generate significant dynamics from an economic perspective. 

In Morocco culture is the human endeavor par excellence that produces feelings and imaginaries. It also reinforces the feeling of identity and citizenship. The co-existence of cultural manifestations close to, what we can define as, traditional culture, which is product of a multiplicity of ethnic groups and subcultures that has participated in the construction of the identity and history of the kingdom; and the manifestations closer to what we can define as modern culture or, further more, as industrial culture, which is also a characteristic of the contemporary culture. The sustainability of these cultural manifestations (sacred music festival in Fez, Mawazine in Rabat, Gnawa festival in Essaouira and others without exception are then, the inevitable guarantee of multiethnic and pluricultural society.

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