What works in Casablanca

Casablanca is home to [Casablanca Finance City], a financial hub established in 2010 that has grown to 226 member companies from 24 nationalities operating across 80 countries and contributing approximately 7,000 direct jobs, ranking 49th globally and 1st in Africa on the Global Financial Centres Index as of March 2026. The city also hosts [Technopark Maroc], Morocco's first technology incubator founded in 2001, which has expanded to multiple sites across the country and supported over 3,000 startups cumulatively while creating 15,000+ jobs with an 86% incubation success rate. Additionally, Casablanca was the focal point of [Villes Sans Bidonvilles], Morocco's national slum-elimination programme launched in 2004, though the evidence provided does not isolate Casablanca's specific outcomes from the nationwide results. These three initiatives reflect Casablanca's role as a driver of Morocco's financial services, technology entrepreneurship, and urban development, though the available evidence does not provide annual breakdowns or assess whether impact levels have been sustained beyond the reported cumulative figures.