Thursday, September 14, 2017

How Mauritius Can Increase Its GDP By 50%


Remove all sugar cane and replace it with the kind of stuff we have on the other two-thirds of our land area. That would boost our GDP – and the per capita number as shown in the above chart – by almost half. And get us out of the middle-income group after being trapped there for almost three decades.

No, no, no you say. Sugar has a bright future. Really? Then let's raze all of our towns and grow sugar cane and shrink GDP by 98% or USD11.8bn. That would collapse our GDP per capita to $283 or a level close to that of South Sudan – a country which has been in civil war since 2013. We'd probably experience the same thing if we reverted back to being a mono crop. It'd take a less extreme scenario to have people in the streets. That's for sure. 

5 comments:

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Zistis sosyal se ki groser gato nu kwi ek kuma nu partaz li. Si tir tu kann gato la vinn 50% pli gro. Donk otomatikman pwena plis pu partaze. Berenger pa truv sa li. Li anvi sap lindistri sikriyer. Li pa tusel. Ena 2 politisyen ki kontan sa lindistri la inpe tro buku: Sithanen ek Boolell.

Anonymous said...

Frer dir nou kifer sa trwa la ena enn feb pou bann sikrier ?

Anonymous said...

Vous noterez aussi qu'ils sont les chouchoux de l'express !

Anonymous said...

Read with great relief in le Mauricien that our other national hero Pierre Dinan is preaching the reformation gospel of human development. We are really blessed with redemption!

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Anfet monn bliye enn katriyem: Subron. Kinn deza gayn zom de lane l'express. Ansam ek Sithanen ek Oodiah (ki an pasan bann promoter depresyasyon rupi). Interesan se ki ena p20 dan sa revi lalit la.

@ser/frer anonymous

ser/frer, u pe rant dan firs an zanvye?