The new mantra of anti-liberalisation: Un attrape- nigaud!!!

The mantra of the day was trade liberalisation. Trade liberalisation became the symbols of economic progress after years of inward looking, import substitution policies supported by exchange controls. We were told that economic analysis has found repeatedly that it meant efficiency gains through improved resource allocation to expanding export sectors, heightened competition as a spur to achieve world standards of efficiency, wider options for consumers, ability to tap international capital markets and greater exposure to new ideas, technologies and products.

The MAU-MOZ-MAD Growth Triangle

Some 13 000 hectares of land in Madagascar are being put at the disposal of Mauritian entrepreneurs and it seems to be a non-event;  we are still stuck up with the nasty hangover from the 2000 hectares tussle that continue to inflame passions and cut loose not only the Dultamans but  also more sober ones from their moorings ;

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.

The cold must have come from elsewhere....

(Published in L'Express under Opinion by Mark Nattar 10-12 Aug 2004)
It has been quite difficult for me to make out the causes of the "froid" that has allegedly subsided on the Mauritian business community by the statement of the Minister of Economic Development, Financial Services and Corporate Affairs on the peculiarities of share ownership of some of the listed companies of our Stock Exchange.

Market Access or Institutions of conflict management...?

 In the context of the Roundtable on the Comprehensive Development Framework being organised by the NESC in collaboration with the World Bank, it would be an excellent opportunity to refocus the debate on the important determinants that launched Mauritius on a development path quite unique in the region and nurtured the gradual emergence of the "Indian Ocean Tiger",

E-BUSINESS : Our prospects

The prospects for accelerated growth and development offered by electronic commerce are leading most developing countries to turn their attention toward information and communication technologies (ICTs) and an assorted array of related policy areas.  ICTs are now recognized by technologists and economists alike to be drivers of economic growth.  The widespread deployment and utilization of ICTs by developing countries are expected to improve intellectual capital, workforce skills, productivity, market access and social structures, and enable them to become more competitive, both regionally and globally.