Xinhua, Rabat :
Remittances from Moroccans abroad reached 4.7 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of 2018, up 1 percent compared with the same period last year, the foreign exchange regulator said Saturday.
The remittances, a main source of foreign exchange reserves in Morocco, came from some 5 million Moroccan expatriates. Between January and August, the flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Morocco declined by 8.6 percent to 1.9 billion dollars from a year earlier.
In 2017, Morocco attracted nearly 2.57 billion dollars of FDI, up 12 percent year-on-year.