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LOPEZ LARA, Enrique. Cooperación y desarrollo territorial en el espacio fronterizo del norte de Marruecos. Estud. front [online]. 2008, vol.9, n.17, pp.43-71. ISSN 2395-9134.

The North of Morocco, like border regional space with Spain and the European Union, is object of an intense process of promotion of policies and programs of cooperation of diverse institutions (UN, European Union, agencies of cooperation, among others) that have interests in the zone, such as: fortification of a growth, safety ring in a strategic zone of the rent by the existence of a high step between neighbors, creation of a new policy of vicinity based on semi-integration, reduction of the emigration, etcetera. Question that agrees with a determined policy of the Moroccan government to relaunch socially and economically this space: process of regionalización and dowry of institutions (Agency for the Promotion of the Development in the Regions of the North), design of a strategy of growth based on the human development, and more. This paper analizes the reasons of this process, the geographic reality and the socioeconomic characterization of the border area. At the same time, it diagnoses the weaknesses and opportunities for the joint of new policies of cooperation and development for the actors who look for a territorial development in this border area, today in crisis.

Palavras-chave : north of Morocco; border; cooperation; European Neighbourhood Policy; territorial-development; human development.