Why India Missed The Industrial Revolution

A little bit of history doesn't hurt. Funny that some people here who had seen the declassified notes of the British PM Harold Wilson – just like anybody with an internet connection – seem to take them at face value. That is the independence of Mauritius was automatic and SSR loved to be called Premier. They seem to think that the Leader of the LP came to the negotiation table mostly unprepared. SSR and unprepared??? He also took his General Secretary to London even though that guy had lost his seat in the 1963 general elections. By 96 votes. Probably to cheer the latter up as he'd always wanted to go to Trafalgar Square.

The British Investor is Not Going To Singapore

In an interview with Deepa Bhookun yesterday Sithanen mentioned that a British investor was transferring his operations to Bangladesh and India because we had become more expensive, the pound had depreciated, blah blah blah. The Minister told l'express that he had failed to convince the guy to stay even after dangling the additional stimulus package card. No big surprise here.

It's not the first time nor the last that an entrepreneur will shut down her operations and go elsewhere. They will move to other locations which are compatible with the sophistication of their businesses when it's profitable for them to do so. Likewise our government should encourage an economic structure which is appropriate for the extraordinary gifts with which the beautiful people of Mauritius have been endowed. That's too much for Sithanen and Ramgoolam to understand.