Doing business 2020 is the 17th in a series of annual studies investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
... See More + Doing business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe - and over time. Regulations affecting 12 areas of the life of a business are covered: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency, employing workers, and contracting with the government. The employing workers and contracting with the government indicator sets are not included in this year’s ranking on the ease of doing business. Data in doing business 2020 are current as of May 1, 2019. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms of business regulation have worked, where, and why. This economy profile presents indicators for Mauritius; for 2020, Mauritius ranks 13.
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As a global development institution, the World Bank’s mission is to support Mauritius in its continuing path to economic and social development to the benefit of all citizens.
... See More + This can take many forms, and in high middle-income countries like Mauritius it is often more about knowledge and technical advice than about the financing that Bank is best known for. In fact, there are currently no active World Bank lending operations in Mauritius, but the technical cooperation in areas such as education reform, banking supervision, economic planning, and productivity has been expanding in the past year. The purpose of this update, which will be published twice a year going forward, is to keep the Mauritian public informed of the work the Bank does here, and to share some of the thinking on global issues that are important to the country. In this first edition, World Bank poverty expert, summarizes the findings of two years of research on income inequality and labor mobility in Mauritius. It also reflects on the experience of Costa Rica in landing a transformative foreign direct investment by Intel microchips that changed the country’s development trajectory, and whether Mauritius too could catch such a Blue Marlin investor.
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Working Paper 141916 SEP 01, 2019
Von Uexkull,Jan Erik; Echandi,Roberto; Ranzani,MarcoDisclosed
At a high-level meeting in October 2017, APEI member countries and Madagascar (APEI ) identified enhanced regional agricultural trade as a key priority.
... See More + Trade between the mainland countries and Madagascar as exporters and Mauritius and Seychelles as importers was identified as areas where tangible benefits from regional integration could be realized given the latter countries’ dependence on imported food and raw materials. Apart from cotton lint, for which the mainland APEI countries are already large suppliers to Mauritius, nearly all agriculture exports from APEI countries to the island nations are exports from Madagascar to Mauritius. Commodities widely exported by Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia to have generally not found a market in Mauritius or Seychelles to this point. Addressing constraints for such trade to materialize was identified as a promising avenue to open new opportunities for regional integration and inclusive growth in the producing countries, while at the same time reducing food prices and input costs in the importing countries. The matter was referred to the World Bank for further analysis which is presented in this report.
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The project development objective is to strengthen the capacity of Statistics Mauritius to collect a comprehensive set of household data, support and strengthen the analytical capacity of Statistics Mauritius, and enhance statistical data production and dissemination practices.
... See More + The proposed Level two Restructuring is to extend the project closing date is extended from July 2, 2019 to December 31, 2019. The extension will allow completion of all planned activities in order to achieve the project development objective.
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Mauritius has experienced substantial economic growth and accomplished an unprecedented structural transformation since independence. The structural transformation of the economy has brought about significant poverty reduction, but has also contributed to increase inequality.
... See More + Over the last decade, rising inequality in household income from labor has been the main culprit behind the growth in overall income inequality. Raising productivity across the board, and particularly among Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), is key to achieve high-income status by fostering economic growth and making it more inclusive. Developing and attracting high skills are key to foster innovation, to increase the productivity of the private sector, and of SMEs in particular, and to promote the inclusiveness of growth. Finally, this study is a plea for high-quality enterprise data in order to understand the drivers of differences in productivity levels and growth patterns.
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Over the last decade, steady economic growth has placed Mauritius solidly in the upper middle-income group and has contributed to further reducing poverty.
... See More + Economic growth has been accompanied by an increase in income inequality that has recently started to decline. Rising inequality in household income from labor has been the main culprit behind the growth in overall income inequality. The government's efforts to redistribute the benefits of growth have helped to partially mitigate the increases in labor income inequality. Scope of this study is to investigate the effect of the fiscal system as a whole on the distribution of income as of 2017 and to unpack the contribution of single fiscal instruments to poverty and inequality.
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