Moroccanization (, ) was a Moroccan domestic economic policy enacted by King

Hassan II Hassan, Hasan, Hassane, Haasana, Hassaan, Asan, Hassun, Hasun, Hassen, Hasson or Hasani may refer to: People *Hassan (given name), Arabic given name and a list of people with that given name *Hassan (surname), Arabic, Jewish, Irish, and Scotti ...

on March 3, 1973, in which major segments of the private sector were transferred to Moroccan ownership.'{{Cite journal , last1=Cherkaoui , first1=Mouna , last2=Ben Ali , first2=Driss , date=February 2007 , title=The political economy of growth in Morocco , url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1062976906000962 , journal=The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance , language=en , volume=46 , issue=5 , pages=741–761 , doi=10.1016/j.qref.2006.08.003, s2cid=154722827 , url-access=subscription The policy had the effect of "transferring to political loyalists and high-ranking military officers state-held assets, agricultural lands, and enterprises that were more than 50 percent foreign owned." Overnight, the portion of industrial enterprises in Morocco that were owned by Moroccans increased from 18% to 55%. In the following period, from 1973 to 1977, the Moroccan economy grew at a rate of 7.3% annually, financed mainly with foreign loans.

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Economic history of Morocco Economic policy in Africa