2010
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1676286
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Mauritius: African Success Story

Abstract: Mauritius is a top performer among African countries. It developed a manufacturing sector soon after independence and has managed to respond well to new external shocks. What explains this success? This paper draws on the history of the island, the writings of foreign economists, the ideas of locals, and the results of econometric tests. Mauritius has mostly followed good policies. They include: creating a well-managed Export Processing Zone, conducting diplomacy regarding trade preferences, spending on educat… Show more

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“…Mauritius' economic performance since independence in 1968 has been invariably labeled "the Mauritian miracle" and the "success of Africa" (Romer, 1992;Frankel, 2010;Stiglitz, 2011). Indeed, the island started out with the disadvantages of a typical African economy: a low-income monocrop exporter with a fully tropical climate, subject to significant terms-of-trade and output shocks, high population growth, and ethnic tensions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mauritius' economic performance since independence in 1968 has been invariably labeled "the Mauritian miracle" and the "success of Africa" (Romer, 1992;Frankel, 2010;Stiglitz, 2011). Indeed, the island started out with the disadvantages of a typical African economy: a low-income monocrop exporter with a fully tropical climate, subject to significant terms-of-trade and output shocks, high population growth, and ethnic tensions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The comparison with Mauritius is especially notable for historical reasons. Until the 1980s, Mauritius was a natural-resource-based economy, its sugar cane industry being the country's main foreign exchange earner (Frankel, 2012). As tourism gained momentum, however, the weight of the sugar industry in economic activity declined and the political clout of the plantation owners declined accordingly.…”
Section: Empirical Evidencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…well for them, both countries have foregone a standing army. The result in both cases has been histories with no coups and financial savings that can be used for education, investment, and other productive purposes [Frankel 2012a]. 6 Mexico in the 1990s, largely thanks to the leadership of President Ernesto Zedillo, adopted nonpartisan federal electoral institutions that subsequently in 2000 allowed the opposition party to take power for the first time, and in 2006 Mexico was able to resolve successfully a disputed election [Henrı´quez 2006].…”
Section: Ideas From Newly Industrializing Economiesmentioning
confidence: 99%