Independent · Atlas Policy, Rabat
Atlas Policy in Rabat. We publish research and free policy recommendations on Morocco and the Middle East — the economy, technology, geopolitics and society.
Independent
Nonprofit and nonpartisan
Open
Research published free of charge
Rabat
Morocco and the Middle East
Why Atlas Policy
Evidence should reach the room before consequential decisions are made.
Government and business are making consequential choices faster than the evidence can reach them. We produce the analysis, publish it openly, and put recommendations in public — free of charge.
Our questions begin in Morocco. We work across the Middle East because comparison sharpens the work.
“Independent” is a working method, not a slogan.
The Rabat institute is a nonprofit association under Moroccan law. Members contribute in a personal capacity. We are not a consultancy, a political organisation, or a lobby.
We focus on the following areas
The questions that matter rarely sit inside one field. Our work is designed to cross them.
01
Employment economics, SME policy, taxation and formalization, markets and competitiveness.
02
How AI and automation remake the state, the firm, and work — without importing the risk.
03
Morocco’s place in the Middle East, and the currents that shape national choices.
04
What work means, who carries risk, and how the social contract is being rewritten.
Latest work
Current programmes and the policy questions we are putting into public.
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Technology & AI
August 2026
When an AI assistant calls one argument “the strongest,” naive readers treat that label as a verdict. The system often meant only that the argument is common. That substitution — prevalence dressed as merit — is how machines quietly settle contested questions.
Policy brief
Geopolitics & regional strategy
August 2026
The late-July 2026 surge into Ceuta was treated as a sudden migration emergency. That framing is incomplete. A European territorial enclave still sits on the African mainland, and demographic pressure will only intensify.
Programme
Economy & enterprise
Morocco’s economy expands, but employment does not keep pace. This programme examines why growing firms still choose not to hire: the cost of taking staff on and letting them go, informality as a survival choice, legal relief that sits unused, and unfilled posts in the state.
Policy brief
Reductions and exemptions already exist in Moroccan law. The companies that remain formal often never hear of them — and so never use them.
Analysis
Important positions in the administration stay vacant for lack of funds. Whether automation can close part of that gap, without importing its risks, remains largely unexamined.
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