MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 15/03/2025
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00:00Thank you for joining us on Medihan, and welcome to this weekly edition of Economic
00:12News.
00:13Morocco is still breaking records in the tourism sector.
00:17In the first two months of the year, arrivals at border posts reached 2.7 million, an increase
00:24of 24% compared to the same period in 2024.
00:28According to the Ministry of Tourism, there are 521,000 additional arrivals compared to
00:34the same period of the previous year.
00:36For the only month of February, arrivals at border posts reached 1.4 million, a
00:4222% increase in annual flows.
00:45This dynamic, according to the same source, is carried out as much by foreign tourists
00:49at an increase of 18% as by Moroccans living abroad who have progressed by 26%.
00:55And then, in connection with Morocco, Heritage Institute has just updated its annual ranking
01:02on economic freedom in the world.
01:05It stands out that among the 176 countries and territories, Morocco occupies the first
01:10rank in the North African region.
01:12In its 31st edition of its ranking, the American Reflection Group reveals that the kingdom
01:18ranks 7th in Africa and 86th in the world.
01:22Morocco owes its ranking to its performance, among other things, in terms of the criteria
01:26of investment freedom, financial freedom, monetary freedom and tax liability.
01:31If Morocco far exceeds the average for 8 of the 12 indicators, however, it must
01:37make progress in terms of freedom of work, solidity budgetary, integrity of the government
01:42and judicial efficiency.
01:44Note that for this edition, the world ranking is dominated by Singapore, Switzerland,
01:49Ireland, Taiwan and Luxembourg.
01:51In contrast to non-studied countries, countries where economic freedoms are almost non-existent
01:56are Sudan, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.
02:01We continue our weekly news with this note on the global trend of the real estate market
02:08in the fourth quarter of 2024.
02:10The trend of real estate asset prices remained stable throughout the year 2024 compared to
02:162023, according to Banca Almarrib and the National Agency for Funding Conservation of the Cadastre
02:22and Cartography.
02:23This situation reflects a stabilization of residential prices, an increase of 0.1%
02:29of those of land and a decrease of 0.1% of those of professional-use goods.
02:35Regarding the number of sales, it recorded an increase of 5% the previous year,
02:40the result of increases of 5.2% of sales of residential goods, of 5.8% of those of land
02:47and of 1.9% of those of professional-use goods.
02:51Per city, the trend of real estate asset prices displayed throughout the year increased,
02:56from 0.3% in Rabat to 1% in Marrakech, as well as decreases from 0.2% in Casablanca
03:04to 0.1% in Tangier.
03:08Economic news this week is also the Russian agricultural exports to African countries,
03:15which increased by 19% the previous year, totaling $7 billion.
03:21According to the Federal Center for Agricultural Export Development, national food products
03:27have been delivered to 45 countries on the continent.
03:30Egypt remains in the first-buyer position.
03:33Indeed, Russian agricultural exports to this country have increased by 21% in value last year.
03:40Countries such as Libya, Kenya and Tunisia are also in good place in terms of Russian agricultural deliveries.
03:47Still, according to the same source, the basis of Russian agricultural exports to Africa
03:52are cereals, namely wheat, barley and corn, which together represent 87% of the value
03:59of food deliveries on the continent.
04:02Internationally, Volkswagen announced a drop of almost a third of its net profit in 2024,
04:11plagued by the decline of its sales in China and the increase in its costs.
04:15The group released a net profit of 12.39 billion euros the previous year,
04:21a 30.6% drop from 2023.
04:25In the midst of restructuring to try to restore its competitiveness,
04:29the European car leader announced this winter an unprecedented economic plan,
04:34planning to remove 35,000 jobs in Germany.
04:38The group saw its car deliveries drop by 2.3% the previous year.
04:43Sales growth in North America did not succeed in compensating for the 9.5% drop in China.
04:50Volkswagen's main market, which makes up almost a third of its sales,
04:55is losing market share.
05:00We end our weekly edition in Japan.
05:03The government has begun a rare sale of grain in stock,
05:06drawn from its strategic rice reserves,
05:09designed to respond to emergency situations,
05:11and in order to counter the persistent flame of prices of this basic element in the country.
05:17Faced with a stronger demand,
05:18prices have still recorded a record high of 71.8% over a year in January,
05:25according to official figures.
05:26To curb these trends,
05:28the government announced in mid-February
05:30that it had decided to unlock its strategic reserves
05:32by putting up to 210,000 tons on the market.
05:36Japan currently stores about 1 million tons of rice for emergency situations.
05:41The country had enacted a law in 1995 to create strategic rice stocks,
05:47after a very bad rice harvest two years earlier
05:50pushed consumers to rush into supermarkets.
05:54This is the end of our weekly edition.
05:55Thank you for watching this episode of Programmes sur Médien.