Africa-Press – Mauritius. I often hear people make comments like, “What have we been doing for over 50 years? or even worse “It was better before independence!” “People who think that are either in bad faith, or suffering from a form of madness that only Sigmund Freud could analyze.
“Today, the FDI are the serum that allows the Mauritian economy to stay the course, and the state to continue to finance the social model.
The three pillars of our economy – tourism, real estate and the financial sector – are now entirely dependent on foreign capital flows and are redrawing a map of winners and losers in the economic game.
“You have to understand how the shares of the politico-economic cake are distributed in Mauritius.
We readily speak of political dynasties which have a monopoly on political space, but we never speak of economic dynasties which have a monopoly on economic space.
So how can this tendency to monopolies – political and economic, for that matter – be prevented? There is a whole field of reflection to be produced there.
“The Prime Minister himself says that this trend is true: that of the infiltration of institutions by the interests of the mafias.
Are we in a situation where the state apparatus has been captured and directed towards the financial interests of the mafias? No, we are not in the hypothesis of a state within a state, like what the Cosa Nostra in Italy, Pablo Escobar in Colombia or El Chapo in Mexico were able to build.
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