In 1972, King Hassan II and President Houari Boumediene announced the creation of a joint venture to operate the Gara Djbilet iron mine. This project was part of the border convention between the two countries. Algeria quickly forgot its commitments, and Morocco did not insist.
In a report entitled «Morocco's Jobs Landscape», the World Bank assesses the challenges linked to employment in Morocco and recommends reducing the size of the informal economy and «creating more jobs in high productivity sectors».