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On the 4th June, Mauritius was the first of the four countries to address its budget deficit due to Covid-19. Its budget looked at the longer-term strategy of diversifying its economy away from importing most of its food stuff to encouraging manufacturing and reducing its dependence on tourism. The budget also addressed the need for …

Property tax – A cure for Covid-19? Read More »

As a result of this pandemic, the IMF is predicting an economic downturn that will make the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 seem benign. A fall of 3% in global growth in 2020 forecasted by the IMF assumes the containment strategies adopted by most countries in Q2 are effective in “flattening the curve” so that …

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