Category: Economy

If collaboration is the currency of a peaceful human journey, a continuously battered currency thoroughly undermines it

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  More people died from the austerity in the five years before the pandemic than have died from Covid since.

Economy

It is necessary to urgently revisit our international trade policy and gauge the real trade-off benefit between market access for our limited range of exports and opening the

It is in times of crisis that the managerial acumen of the government is put to test. The onus is squarely on government to prove its mettle or

This is not the time for budgetary largesse or freebies at public expense to all and sundry the country can ill-afford from strapped public finances

Despite the losses incurred since the 2014 crop, emergency bailouts as well increasing support from public funds have kept the industry on a tenuous lifeline. It is akin

Global Business

The PRB salary table is a tell tale story of the ugly reality of Mauritius 53 years after independence

Air Mauritius was already in the Intensive Care Unit when Covid hit. Covid would have probably killed it anyway, but it was not Covid which took it to

The people cannot be made as in 2008 to bear the costs but not reap the benefits of recovery. We cannot be safeguarding private interests at the expense

Catching up with Mauritius – the country Fiji was once richer than, but is now twice as poor as – will not be easy. But Fiji would do

It does not yet seem that policy makers have engaged in meaningful introspection about why their policies are not working as the benefit of printing money is fast

Covid-19 crisis has also brought an opportunity for the country to refocus attention on structural reforms, and build back a resilient economic system