Mauritius: A People and Their Choices

Mauritius: A People and Their Choices

[L'Express] Introduction : Mauritius has spent nearly six decades defying the predictions made about its bleak future by Nobel economist James Meade in 1961. The second part of this six-part series of essays - to be published in the following days - explains that the Mauritian miracle did not happen in a vacuum, but in a specific international environment almost perfectly designed to reward small states with political stability and institutional…