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Typology of poor women in Morocco:
Based on the combined results of multidimensional mapping and
monetary poverty mapping, a typology of Moroccan women according to the
type of poverty they experience has been established. In this respect, three
categories have been defined: the first category constitutes the hard core of
poverty, it concerns women who combine both forms of poverty (monetary
and multidimensional), the second category includes women who are poor in
the sense of multidimensional poverty only and finally women who are subject
to the monetary form of poverty only. The weight of these three groups
determines the overall poverty rate of women in Morocco.
This typology highlighted that two million women suffer a single poverty
(17.7% of the female population): 1.8 million women suffer exclusively from
multidimensional poverty (15.9%) and 199 thousand women (1.8%) from
monetary poverty only, 244 thousand women (2.1%), forming the hard core of
poverty, are affected by both multidimensional poverty and monetary poverty.
With these three indices, the volume of poverty in its monetary and
multidimensional forms is 2.2 million women, representing an overall poverty
rate of 19.9% nationally, 7.8% in urban areas and 40.4% in rural areas.
The hard core of poverty is 0.4% in urban areas and 5.2% in rural areas. At
the regional level, the Draa Tafilalet region has the highest rate (6.8%) followed
by Beni Mellal Khenifra (4.5%). In the provinces, the hard core of female
poverty is most pronounced in Azilal (13.4%), followed by Zagora (12.4%), then
Tinghir (9.1%) and Midelt (7.5%). Double poverty affects less than 5% of
women in 68.4% of municipalities and urban centres, between 5% and 10% in
20.3%, between 10% and 20% in 8.9% and above 20% in 2%.
As for overall poverty, significant disparities emerge from the analysis on
the territorial level: At the regional level, the overall poverty rate reaches 29.7%
in Draa Tafilalet, 27.3% in Beni Mellal Khenifra, 24.8% in Fez Meknes, against

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