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• The island was considered as underdeveloped


  1969
• Underdeveloped country


  • Over dependence on Sugar industry
  • High unemployment
• Profits obtained on monocap industry: the sugar industry
• Construction of roads, public buildings, reservoirs, schools and hospitals
• Export of sugar was interrupted in development
• Rising wages of workers
• Unfavourable climatic conditions
• Fluctuating prices in the world market affected the sugar industry
• There were very few other industries, which produce goods that's why Government import most of its products
• Centralisation. Closing down small mills to open a bigger one
• Unemployment after the harvest season was over, many of them were out of work
• Young men who had completed their school Certificate did not want to work in the sugar industry
• The introduction of mechanisation
• Obstacles to the economic development of the country 1960-1970

  • Small domestic market
  • Distance from source of Raw materials
• To overcome all the social and economic difficulties

  1. Diversification of the economy

  2. Increased engagement in the industrialisation process
• Demand and nation Building to facilitated the 'Mauritian Miracle'
• Rise in life expectancy
• Cultural diversity
• Industrialisation


  1. Import Substitution

  2. To encourage local entrepreneurship

  3. To reduce imports and to increase self-sufficiency
• Export Processing 2010 as a way to solve the increasing problem of unemployment
• In the 1980s, the textile industry expanded rapidly
• Export Processing Zone (EPZ)

  • Adaptable labour
  • Availability well connected by the land and air
• The production process


  1. Input

  2. Manufacturing & Transformation

  3. Output

  4. Labour

  5. Waste

  6. Finished goods

  7. Energy
• Choosing a place for a factory

  • Suitable land area
  • State government assistance
• Sectors of the economy

  • Primary (agricultural and fishing activities)
  • Secondary (manufacturing)
  • Tertiary (services)
• Encode to and nationalise economic conditions in Mauritius Since Independence
• Earning, agriculture and fishing
• The role's and a few guest houses in 1990-2001-2002 as part of the tourism industry
• Planting of coconut trees in the South Island as a main source of income
• Vegetable growing as another source of income
• STREDTLER work are
• Independence and nation Building

  1. List of independence took place in August 1968

  2. The Independence Party

  3. The Parti Mauricien Social Democrate did not want Independence

  4. January 1960 a riot broke out in Port Louis

  5. Chagossians expelled from the Chagos Archipelago

  6. Military deal with USA in 1966

  7. Mauritius obtains independence in 1968

  8. Forced expulsion of Chagossians in 1971-1972

  9. Hearing at international Court of Justice begin in 2018
• Tristan discovered Ile de sable in 1967
• General Elections in 1967 to decide Independence
• Formation of new political party (MMM) Mouvement Militant Mauricien by Paul Raymond Berenger in 1969
• 1983- New party (MSM) Mouvement Socialiste Mauricien by Anerood Jugnauth
• 1992- Mauritius became Republic
• 2001- Regional Assemblys setup
• 2002- Autonomy granted to Rodrigues