Governance
Effective Delivery Calls for Fundamental Reforms of the Public Service
| July 23, 2018
Finance Bill 2018
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Tag: World Bank
Governance & Public Utilities
Hands Off Water
| May 8, 2018
It is absolutely daft and blatantly irresponsible for government to propose the privatization of the CWA or worse handing over its management to the private sector
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Economy
Failing to see The Wood for The Trees
| April 9, 2018
The success story of Mauritius has been built at the expense of widening inequalities. It is high time to take the urgent actions required to reverse the trend
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Economy
The World Bank Lets the Cat Out of the Bag
| April 2, 2018
Rising Social Inequality
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Mauritius at 50
Meade and Mauritius: Rendons à César…
| March 11, 2018
Jose Poncini’s promoting the concept of delocalization and the institutional endorsement provided by James Meade made of them the true pioneers of the EPZ in Mauritius
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Economy
A Reasoned and Loud “No” to Privatization of Public Utilities
| October 13, 2017
The present elected Members of Parliament have no popular mandate to proceed with such a transformative decision as the privatization of the Central Water Authority
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Politics
If not India, then which country?
| June 16, 2017
Ever since Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth came back to Mauritius from India, having obtained a loan from the Government of India to finance certain projects, which loan has
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Editorials
Resuscitating Old Ghosts
| June 3, 2017
It all began with a shortfall in the amount of money available to pay back insurance policy holders in the now defunct BAI Group. When Pravind Jugnauth, the
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Economy
Needed : A Better Deal for OAPs
| January 15, 2017
According to the World Bank any person having to exist on $2 a day ($60 per month) is deemed to be living in extreme poverty, that is on
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Economy
African countries catching up with Mauritius
| November 7, 2016
I have had the opportunity to chat with the Harvard economists who came up with the concept of the World Bank Doing Business ranking.
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Economy
Mauritius’ International Standing
| October 31, 2016
A quick reorientation of public policy – consisting not merely of reshuffling of Cabinet positions – to get back our credentials will be necessary to inspire confidence again
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Politics
Breaking away from the trap
| September 4, 2016
Nothing short of a change of leadership is needed
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Editorials
The Power of IPPs
| June 27, 2016
In 1997, based on a model employed to encourage energy production in less developed energy-deficient economies, the World Bank advocated that Mauritius should also embark on that model.
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Society
Things we take for granted
| June 6, 2016
When we look around at many countries in our vicinity and elsewhere as well, we will realise that we have little to envy compared to even some of
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Politics
Moving from Gloom to Boom (and back?)
| March 22, 2016
Mauritian Economy 1968-2015:
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