Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45119 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2009/36
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper examines different explanations - initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions - of the Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on openness to trade and FDI are either misleading or incomplete. Even when correctly articulated, openness appears to be a proximate rather than an underlying explanation for the Mauritian experience. The institution-based explanation offers greater promise. Ultimately, however, the econometric results indicate that existing explanations may be incomplete. Some idiosyncratic factors, particularly Mauritian diversity and the responses to managing it, may provide the missing pieces in the story of Mauritius's success.
Subjects: 
Mauritius
growth
institutions
openness
JEL: 
F1
F4
O2
O4
O5
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-207-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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