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Human development index : Maurice et les Seychelles au top africain L’île Maurice reste le pays de l’ensemble africain le mieux placé dans le classement de l’Indice de développement humain (IDH) established by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to measure health, education and standard of living in 191 countries. Mauritius appears....

Moody’s dégrade la note mauricienne L’agence Moody’s a fait passer il y a quelques semaines la note de l’île Maurice de Baa2 à Baa3. The government of the sister island attributes this decline to the consequences of the health crisis, which violently impacted the national economy in 2020 and 2021. Moody’s rating is taken into account by financial institutions for....

Net redressement de la fréquentation touristique Les responsables du tourisme seychellois estiment que le pays accueillera en 2022 près de 260 000 visiteurs, i.e. almost two thirds of the number of tourists recorded in 2019 (428 000), which was a record. End of July, Seychelles had already recorded nearly 183,000 tourist arrivals, as much as for the whole year...

Le Forum économique des îles en octobre à Maurice « Repenser demain » : this is the theme chosen for the 13th Indian Ocean Islands Economic Forum which will be held on 11, October 12 and 13 in Mauritius, after two years of interruption due to pandemic. Conferences, round tables, workshops and B2B meetings will be held at....

Un élu local condamné La Cour de discipline budgétaire et financière, sitting at the Court of Auditors on July 5, fined Daniel Zaïdani and Saïdi Issouf 5,000 euros, respectively former president and former general director of SPL 976, for having made payments in the absence of service provided within the framework of four...

Une nouvelle gare multimodale à Port-Louis Le Victoria Urban Terminal a été inauguré le 8 juillet dernier à Maurice, on the site of the National Transport Authority building and the former Decean barracks. This multimodal station, where passengers can move from “metro express” to city and intercity buses, also has a shopping center with around fifty....

Baisse de la production de riz Environ 4 millions de tonnes de riz ont été produites à Madagascar en 2021-2022, figure down 6% compared to previous harvests, according to the World Bank. Drought would be the main cause of this poor performance, which required a 15% increase in the volume of white rice imports (650...

The Seychelles economy is recovering, des incertitudes demeurent Les perspectives macroéconomiques des Seychelles sont favorables, mais des défis subsistent car les retombées du conflit russo-ukrainien devraient peser sur les soldes extérieur et budgétaire en raison d'une flambée des prix des matières premières, according to the head of the mission organized in Seychelles by the IMF in early May. Boriana Yontcheva I noticed that....

The Mahorean economy rebounded in 2021, selon l’Iédom « Après une année 2020 marquée par la crise sanitaire, Mayotte's economy in 2021 is part of a recovery dynamic, taking advantage, among others, of the revival of global economic activity and the optimism of economic players regarding growth forecasts”, writes the Issuing Institute of Overseas Departments in its report..

Le chômage des jeunes à la hausse Si le taux de chômage s’est stabilisé en 2021 à Maurice (9,1%, i.e. 48,400 unemployed) after the increase recorded the previous year, youth unemployment has increased, going from 26,1% at 27,7% in one year, selon Statistics Mauritius. The figures also show that unemployed women are generally more qualified than....