Excluding disabled people from the workforce costs Morocco over 9 billion dirhams
27 December 2010
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The loss of earnings from excluding disabled people from the workforce is estimated at over 9 billion dirhams, said a researcher at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA) in Rabat.
This figure represents about 2% of Morocco's GDP in 2004, added Mr. Touhami Abdelkhalek, statistician and professor at INSEA, who presented a report on the cost of excluding disabled people on the sidelines of a conference on the economic and social cost of exclusion and the bill to strengthen the rights of disabled people, organized Wednesday in Rabat by the Collective for the Promotion of the Rights of Disabled People.
For his part, the president of the Collective, Mohamed El khadiri, said that this conference is part of the Collective's activities which aim "to raise questions about the government's obligations" in terms of strengthening the rights of disabled people within the framework of its international commitments through, in particular, the ratification of the international convention on the rights of disabled people.
This meeting, he added, is also an opportunity to assess Morocco's achievements in terms of the rights of disabled people in the light of these obligations, stating that in this area, the laws must be designed in accordance with human rights, far from any discrimination against this social category.
This meeting, organized under the theme "The adoption of the law to promote the rights of disabled people, a fundamental claim", aimed to highlight the loss of earnings in terms of the economic, social and political cost caused by the exclusion of this social category in Morocco.
It also aimed to present the initiatives that disabled people intend to undertake to put the issue of promoting the rights of older people on the political agenda.
Published December 16, 2010
Posted online December 27, 2010
maroc-journal.com
This figure represents about 2% of Morocco's GDP in 2004, added Mr. Touhami Abdelkhalek, statistician and professor at INSEA, who presented a report on the cost of excluding disabled people on the sidelines of a conference on the economic and social cost of exclusion and the bill to strengthen the rights of disabled people, organized Wednesday in Rabat by the Collective for the Promotion of the Rights of Disabled People.
For his part, the president of the Collective, Mohamed El khadiri, said that this conference is part of the Collective's activities which aim "to raise questions about the government's obligations" in terms of strengthening the rights of disabled people within the framework of its international commitments through, in particular, the ratification of the international convention on the rights of disabled people.
This meeting, he added, is also an opportunity to assess Morocco's achievements in terms of the rights of disabled people in the light of these obligations, stating that in this area, the laws must be designed in accordance with human rights, far from any discrimination against this social category.
This meeting, organized under the theme "The adoption of the law to promote the rights of disabled people, a fundamental claim", aimed to highlight the loss of earnings in terms of the economic, social and political cost caused by the exclusion of this social category in Morocco.
It also aimed to present the initiatives that disabled people intend to undertake to put the issue of promoting the rights of older people on the political agenda.
Published December 16, 2010
Posted online December 27, 2010
maroc-journal.com
