Mauritius: Forward Results-Based Budgeting for Better Economic Management

 4. Mauritius: Forward Results-Based Budgeting for Better Economic Management

 

 

 

AK Kokil, SD Ramdeen and RC Khushiram

The EPZ : The pitfalls of preferential markets

(Published in L'express under ARTon)

Recently there has been some bragging that the EPZ sector was bequeathed “un riche bilan” of 518 firms with a total employment of 90,682 workers. Let us examine this legacy of the previous regime. Since 1974 world trade in textiles and garments has been governed by the MultiFibre Arrangement. This provided the basis on which industrialized countries have been able to restrict imports from developing countries. Every year countries agree on quotas - the quantities of specified items which can be traded between them.