Perspective: We Are No Longer Heading to Singapore, We Are Sailing to the Caribbean

For a long time, we professed a desire to become the Singapore of the Indian Ocean, but now we are heading towards the Caribbean.

The vision of Sir Édouard Lim Fat, the leadership of Maurice Paturau at the helm of the Joint Economic Council, and further down the line, SAJ and Vishnu Lutchmeenaraidoo taking the baton, all worked towards the economic development of Mauritius based on the Singaporean model. Even in 2014, Ludovic Subran, Chief Economist & Director for Economic Research at Euler Hermes, ...