Mauritius The Drivers of Growth-Can the Past be Extended? /

Mauritius's economic performance has been called 'the Mauritian miracle' and the 'success of Africa' (Romer, 1992; Frankel, 2010; Stiglitz, 2011), despite difficult initial conditions that led a Nobel Prize Winner in economics to predict stagnation (Meade, 1961). We use grow...

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Autor principal: Svirydzenka, Katsiaryna
Altres autors: Petri, Martin
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/134
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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