Editing Economy of Morocco (section)

===Offshoring===
In 2009 Morocco was ranked among the top thirty countries<ref name="ReferenceC">{{cite web|url=http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2009/01/07/feature-03|title=Morocco among the top ten countries in offshoring sector – Magharebia|access-date=11 June 2015|archive-date=6 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006221246/http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2009/01/07/feature-03|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=835718|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217025354/http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=835718|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 December 2008|title=Gartner Identifies Top 30 Countries for Offshore Services in 2008|access-date=11 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1342158,00.html|title=Gartner picks top 30 countries for offshore IT outsourcing|work=SearchCIO|access-date=11 June 2015|archive-date=5 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805072329/http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1342158,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.animaweb.org/en/actu-detail.php?actu=4933|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717162813/http://www.animaweb.org/en/actu-detail.php?actu=4933|url-status= dead|title=ANIMA News : Morocco and Egypt enter the latest Gartner's offshore IT 'Top 30'<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=17 July 2010}}</ref> in the [[Offshoring|offshoring sector]]. Morocco opened its doors to offshoring in July 2006, as one component of the development initiative Plan Emergence, and has so far attracted roughly half of the French-speaking call centres that have gone offshore so far and a number of the Spanish ones.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apebi.org.ma/apebi_eng.php?id_article=491&id_rubrique=37 |title=Apebi |access-date=20 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080904175049/http://www.apebi.org.ma/apebi_eng.php?id_article=491&id_rubrique=37 |archive-date=4 September 2008}}</ref><ref name="alarab.co.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.alarab.co.uk/Previouspages/North%20Africa%20Times/2007/11/04-11/NAT090411.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=20 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722153832/http://www.alarab.co.uk/Previouspages/North%20Africa%20Times/2007/11/04-11/NAT090411.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moroccanamericantrade.com/newsite/Moroccos__offshoring_advantage.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=20 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714115025/http://www.moroccanamericantrade.com/newsite/Moroccos__offshoring_advantage.pdf |archive-date=14 July 2011}}</ref> According to experts, [[multinational corporation|multinational companies]] are attracted by Morocco's geographical and cultural proximity to [[European Union|Europe]],<ref name="ReferenceC"/><ref name="alarab.co.uk"/> in addition to its time zone. In 2007 the country had about 200 call centres, including 30 of significant size, that employ a total of over 18,000 people.<ref name="alarab.co.uk"/>