Judging the Overall Quality of A Country's Policies

A shortcut is to chart the value of its currency over a couple of decades. And if we compare the latter to the level of exports -- let's say for Mauritius and Singapore -- we get an indication of the strength of the local entrepreneurial fibre. Of course we can use our good old policy matrix. Or have a look at the land use. Or the type of bets that are made and at what cost. Traffic congestion is also a pretty good indicator (Istanbul has the world's worst traffic). And how can we forget fiscal policy?

So I guess we can gauge the DNA of a country pretty fast, eh?

SAJ Reveals Why He left SSR's Government

Back in 1967 or one year before we became independent: he disagreed with the policies that were being implemented. Which according to him was a sure route to get booted out of power. That's an important revelation and historians will be forever grateful to SAJ who was in the top job for an incredible 16 years. And is, at least for the moment, the shadow Prime Minister. Aneerood Jugnauth also mentioned that those agreements to disagree with the team-builder extraordinaire were heated.

It would be interesting if he would now be as specific as possible about these exchanges for the benefit of us all.

Global Schizophrenia

In a bid to overcome a "handicap" as he puts it, French education minister Xavier Darcos is planning to increase school exposure to English language, which he claims is a "key to success". Ironically, Dodoland could claim yet another achievement as probably the only country in the world where the global lingua franca is receding and French language is flourishing. But who cares? We are more competitive than Chad after all. N'est-ce pas?