Category: Economy

Mauritius had to demonetise (i.e., remove banknotes from circulation) the whole of its banknotes in 1998.

Mauritius is not in the business of undermining other countries’ tax collections.

This is not an impossible mission. It calls for a change of the conventional frame of mind…

Choices to make I still recall that when we from Mauritius went out in the 1990s to convince people from other countries to come over to do financial

Current uncertainty clouding global economic conditions seems to indicate that we’ll need to put in extra effort to pull up the economy… Times are difficult

Mauritian governing bodies seem endlessly locked in a culture of missed opportunities. More prone to rely helplessly on the soft corner of the ever-elusive “pays amis” to sustain

If anyone were to ask the man in the street whether there should be more/less MPs in Parliament, I think we all have a fair idea what the

I have had the opportunity to chat with the Harvard economists who came up with the concept of the World Bank Doing Business ranking.

We often hear about the need to change the economic model which has served us so well up to now because of changes in the external environment which

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

We’ll need to go to places that can grow and increase their purchasing power in the near term

The public and private sectors are inherently dissimilar animals driven by different incentives. However the recent history of Mauritius has shown that there is sufficient commonality of interests

There’s a policy gridlock for central banks. They must have gone too far, unassisted by fiscal relief, pulling down the level of the interest rate. And they now

We can all make an effort at our individual level to help according to our capacity, but keeping in mind that this is a thankless task

Cheap money may lead to a decrease in interest expenditure and improve corporate bottom lines, but it does not necessarily lead to improved GDP growth!