export processing zone

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was five kilogrammes.’ The business later moved into cutting and polishing South African diamonds.14 The Mauritian government began to consider the potential for an export processing zone (EPZ), with fiscal incentives that would lure foreign investment. The University of Mauritius was set up as a ‘developmental’ university with an emphasis on graduating

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access to the US market. Asian firms that came to Madagascar purely for US market access folded. Eva Razafimandimby, director of the employer group Madagascar Export Processing Zone Association, says that thirty-two companies shut down and 40,000 jobs were lost – around one third of all garment sector employment.38 The United

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response to government development policy. The sugar export tax and fiscal incentives for manufacturing spawned the conglomerates. As Nikhil Treebhoohun, former chief executive of Mauritius’ Export Processing Zone Development Authority, the agency that oversees EPZ factories, puts it: ‘If the government had not intervened, Arnaud Dalais would still be planting sugar.’ This is

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export-oriented industrialisation (EOI). This was in spite of World Bank warnings that the Asian recipe would not work in Mauritius. With an island-wide export processing zone (EPZ) and supporting fiscal incentives, the policy did work. Unemployment fell from 20 per cent of the workforce to 3 per cent and income inequality

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Vizavi, 2018), p. 57. 15 Edouard Lim Fat, From Vision to Miracle: The Memoirs of Sir Edouard Lim Fat and the Story of the Mauritius Export Processing Zone (EPZ) (Port Louis: T-Printers Co., 2010), chapter 5. See, too, Brautigam and Diolle, ‘Coalitions, Capitalists, and Credibility’, p. 22. 16 S. Rosunee, Jacquelene Robeck

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14 per cent in Malaysia, 13 per cent in the Philippines, and 27 per cent in South Korea EPZs. See Takayoshi Kusago and Zaffris Tzannatos, ‘Export Processing Zones: A Review in Need of Update’, Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes 20046 (Washington D. C.: The World Bank, 1998). 20 The Mauritian fiscal deficit

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, 239–42, 261, 266, 268–9, 294, 321, 363n, 372n, 384n American aid and 331 East Asian template 111 export-oriented industrialisation (EOI) 145, 158 export processing zone (EPZ) 146–8, 153, 156, 157, 158, 363n hydroelectricity 181, 201 IMF and World Bank financial sector reform and 328 manufacturing 9, 11, 131–4

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–42, 151, 160, 304, 361n European Economic Community (EEC) associate status 142–3, 229, 360–61n export-oriented industrialisation (EOI) 145 export processing zone (EPZ) 146–7, 148, 153–4, 157, 158 Export Processing Zone Development Authority 157 financial services 150, 157–60 GDP 109, 144, 145, 148, 159, 160 import substitution industrialisation (ISI) 145 inequality

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