Mauritius

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Mauritius
Population:	1.3mn.
GNI, $ :	6.9bn.
Debt:	2.2bn.
Overview:	Progress on the Chinese special economic zone has been slow and India has been fighting off pressures to change tax treaties which allow money to be funnelled through Mauritius to avoid taxes.

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Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

The island scandal calls home

Scandals continue to bring Indian investigators to Mauritius’s fine shores. After last year’s cricket financing scandal (AAC Vol 3 No 7), India’s biggest-ever corruption case – linked to the awarding of second-generation telecommunications licences – has ...

Vol 3 No 8
June 2010

Taxing times

Port Louis suspends six forex companies as talks resume on the tax treaty that allows Indian companies to launder illicit funds

Vol 3 No 7
May 2010

Round-trips and hot money

Indian companies are routing tens of billions of dollars through Mauritius each year in a giant tax avoidance scheme

Vol 3 No 7
May 2010

Tweeting Tharoor and the cricket controversy

Minister of State for External Affairs for Africa Shashi Tharoor considered himself a modern diplomat for his embracing of the internet messaging website Twitter. Yet his tweets from Liberia and Mauritius did little more than rankle Delhi’s chattering c...

Vol 1 No 10
August 2008

Constructive competition

Prime Minister Ramgoolam's plan for Chinese investment faces a few hurdles yet

Vol 1 No 10
August 2008

Ramakrishna Sithanen

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Mauritius

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