Morocco has had a distinct advantage over its north African peers over the past two years: it looks utterly different from them. While Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have undergone a painful progress from revolution to rudderless uncertainty, and while oil-rich Algeria has suffered militant attacks on its infrastructure, Morocco has sailed through the Arab Spring largely unchanged and unscathed.
“We can say that Morocco had an evolution, not a revolution,” says Nizar Baraka, minister of economy and finance.
Despite demographic pressures similar to other north African countries, what saved Morocco from the popular uprisings elsewhere was the fact that it had already implemented some kind of change.
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