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Regional Well-Being Disparities in Morocco and its OECD Partners

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  • Ilyes Boumahdi

    (National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics)

  • Nouzha Zaoujal

    (National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics)

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This article proposes a multidimensional analysis grid to assess regional disparities, transcending monetary considerations. This grid agrees overall with the common framework that prevails in the literature review that we have carried out. It is built around four dimensions of well-being: economy (development, labor market, human capital and innovation), social (health, living conditions and gender), environment and governance. Our analysis of regional disparities was based on the synthesis of fifteen indicators by constructing a Synthetic Index of Well-being (SIWB) by combining its four dimensions using an aggregative-compensative approach. This analysis covers Morocco, 35 of the OECD member countries and their 389 regions between 2000 and 2019. We have assessed the dynamics of Moroccan regions compared to those of the benchmark. Thus, we have highlighted the gaps to be made up in relation to the different areas of well-being as well as their thematic variations.

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  • Ilyes Boumahdi & Nouzha Zaoujal, 2023. "Regional Well-Being Disparities in Morocco and its OECD Partners," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 167(1), pages 183-211, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:167:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1007_s11205-023-03097-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-023-03097-7
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