The developmental state in Mauritius

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 279-297

  Meisenhelder, Thomas ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STATE; INDUSTRIALISATION; STATE AUTONOMY;

MAURITIUS;

EID: 0031414628     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X97002383     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Good accounts of early settlements can be found in Richard B. Allen, 'The Slender, Sweet Thread: sugar, capital, and dependency in Mauritius, 1860-1936', in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (London), 16, 2, 1988, pp. 177-200; Larry W. Bowman, Mauritius: democracy and development in the Indian Ocean (Boulder, CO, and London, 1991); and Jean Houbert, 'Mauritius: independence and dependence', in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), 19, 1, March 1981, pp. 75-105.
2. Good accounts of early settlements can be found in Richard B. Allen, 'The Slender, Sweet Thread: sugar, capital, and dependency in Mauritius, 1860-1936', in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (London), 16, 2, 1988, pp. 177-200; Larry W. Bowman, Mauritius: democracy and development in the Indian Ocean (Boulder, CO, and London, 1991); and Jean Houbert, 'Mauritius: independence and dependence', in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), 19, 1, March 1981, pp. 75-105.
3. Good accounts of early settlements can be found in Richard B. Allen, 'The Slender, Sweet Thread: sugar, capital, and dependency in Mauritius, 1860-1936', in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (London), 16, 2, 1988, pp. 177-200; Larry W. Bowman, Mauritius: democracy and development in the Indian Ocean (Boulder, CO, and London, 1991); and Jean Houbert, 'Mauritius: independence and dependence', in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), 19, 1, March 1981, pp. 75-105.
4. See Auguste Toussaint, A History of Mauritius (London, 1977), pp. 45-70, and Ibrahim Alladin, 'Economic Development in a Plantation Economy', in Studies in Comparative International Development (New Brunswick, NJ), 21, 1986-7, pp. 90-1.
5. See Auguste Toussaint, A History of Mauritius (London, 1977), pp. 45-70, and Ibrahim Alladin, 'Economic Development in a Plantation Economy', in Studies in Comparative International Development (New Brunswick, NJ), 21, 1986-7, pp. 90-1.
6. Alladin, loc. cit. pp 92-3, and Toussaint, op. cit. p. 77.
7. Alladin, loc. cit. pp 92-3, and Toussaint, op. cit. p. 77.
8. Sheila Bunwaree, Mauritian Education in a Global Economy (Rose Hill, Mauritius, 1994), pp. 42-3.
9. Alladin, loc. cit. pp. 93-6.
10. Bowman, op. cit. pp. 32-3 and 40-1.
11. See Ram Seegobin and Lindsey Collen, 'Mauritius: class forces and political power', in Review of African Political Economy (London), 8, January-April 1977, p. 110, and Adele Smith Simmons, Modern Mauritius: the politics of decolonization (Bloomington, IN, 1982), p. 43.
12. See Ram Seegobin and Lindsey Collen, 'Mauritius: class forces and political power', in Review of African Political Economy (London), 8, January-April 1977, p. 110, and Adele Smith Simmons, Modern Mauritius: the politics of decolonization (Bloomington, IN, 1982), p. 43.
13. This leaves unmentioned for the moment some very powerful foreign interests, since according to Houbert, loc. cit., Mauritian independence included an agreement that granted Britain (perhaps as proxy for the United States) authority over the Chagos archipelago, including the strategically important atoll of Diego Garcia.
14. Alladin, loc. cit. p. 98, and Bowman, op. cit. p. 104.
15. Alladin, loc. cit. p. 98, and Bowman, op. cit. p. 104.
16. Houbert, loc. cit. p. 87.
17. Bowman, op. cit. p. 69.
18. See J. M. Meade et al., The Economic and Social Structure of Mauritius (London, 1961, reprinted 1968).
19. Ibrahim Alladin, Economic Miracle in the Indian Ocean (Rose Hill, Mauritius, 1993), pp. 100-2.
20. Seegobin and Collen, loc. cit. pp. 113-17.
21. E. G. Mukonoweshuro, 'Containing Political Instability in a. Poly-Ethnic Society', in Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 14, 1991, pp. 206-7.
22. For example, Bunwaree, op. cit. pp. 2-28.
23. For a classic discussion of dependent capitalist development, see Peter B. Evans, Dependent Development: the alliance of multinational, state and local capital in Brazil (Princeton, NJ, 1979).
24. Bowman, op. cit. pp. 111-15.
25. See David Lempert, 'A Demographic-Economic Explanation of Political Stability', in East Africa Economic Review (Nairobi), 3, 1987, p. 82, and Joseph Kakoza, 'Mauritius Achieves Twin Goals of Stabilization and Growth', in IMF Survey (New York), 16, 3, 1987, pp. 34-6.
26. See David Lempert, 'A Demographic-Economic Explanation of Political Stability', in East Africa Economic Review (Nairobi), 3, 1987, p. 82, and Joseph Kakoza, 'Mauritius Achieves Twin Goals of Stabilization and Growth', in IMF Survey (New York), 16, 3, 1987, pp. 34-6.
27. Bowman, op. cit. p. 119.
28. Seegobin and Collen, loc. cit. p. 115.
29. According to Bowman, op. cit. pp. 104-14, during the 1980S the sugar tax accounted for nearly 15 per cent of public monies.
30. Edward Dommen, 'Meade's Sugar Export Tax Saved Mauritius', in Week-End (Port Louis, Mauritius), 10 March 1996, p. 42.
31. Mukonoweshuro, loc. cit. p. 223.
32. Z. Bhugaloo, 'National Development Strategy in the Years 1980-1988', undergraduate dissertation, University of Mauritius, 1991.
33. Houbert, loc. cit. pp. 88-91.
34. John Addison, A New History of Mauritius (Rose Hill, Mauritius, 1993), p. 101.
35. Mukonoweshuro, loc. cit. p. 201.
36. Percy Selwyn, 'Mauritius', in Robin Cohen (ed.), African Islands and Enclaves (Bervely Hills, CA, 1983), pp. 259-71.
37. See Houbert, loc. cit. pp. 93-101.
38. Addison, op. cit. p. 102, and Houbert, loc. cit. p. 95.
39. Addison, op. cit. p. 102, and Houbert, loc. cit. p. 95.
40. Fred Block, 'The Ruling Class Does Not Rule', in Socialist Review (Berkeley, CA), 7, 1977, pp. 6-28.
41. Bunwaree, op. cit. p. 56.
42. The creation of an export processing zone in Mauritius is discussed in Kevin Shillington, Jugnauth: PM of Mauritius (London, 1991), p. 88-9, which mentions that the originator of the idea became an early and successful investor in the EPZ.
43. Alladin, 'Economic Development in a Plantation Economy', pp. 100-1.
44. See Peter B. Evans, ' Predatory, Developmental and Other Apparatuses ', in Sociological Forum (New York), 4, 1989, pp. 561-87.
45. R. C. Kearny, 'Mauritius and the NIC Model Redux', in Journal of Developing Areas (Macomb, IL), 24, 1990, pp. 195-216.
46. Alladin, Economic Miracle in the Indian Ocean.
47. It should be noted that as labour grows scarce and EPZ wages rise, more and more men are employed in export manufacturing.
48. See Kearney, loc. cit. and Alladin, Economic Miracle in the Indian Ocean.
49. See Kearney, loc. cit. and Alladin, Economic Miracle in the Indian Ocean.
50. Matthew William Roberts, Export Processing Zones and Development: the experience of Mauritius (Bloomington, IN, 1988), School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Occasional Paper No. 17, p. 28.
51. Kearney, loc. cit. p. 197, and United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, 1994 (New York, 1994), p. 105.
52. Kearney, loc. cit. p. 197, and United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, 1994 (New York, 1994), p. 105.
53. Tony Hawkins, 'Mauritius', in Institutional Investor (New York), September 1989, pp. 3-23.
54. Block, loc. cit. pp. 14-20.
55. Alladin, Economic Miracle in the Indian Ocean, and Bowman, op. cit. pp. 128-9.
56. Alladin, Economic Miracle in the Indian Ocean, and Bowman, op. cit. pp. 128-9.
57. Alladin, 'Economic Development in a Plantation Economy', pp. 98-9.
58. See Alice H. Amsden, 'The State and Taiwan's Economic Development', in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol (eds.), Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 78-106.
59. See Alladin, Economic Miracle in the Indian Ocean, and Bunwaree, op. cit. pp. 58-71.
60. See Alladin, Economic Miracle in the Indian Ocean, and Bunwaree, op. cit. pp. 58-71.
61. A considerable amount of the growing investment in tourism is domestic, and 75 per cent of those employed are Mauritians. World Bank, Mauritius (Washington, DC, 1992), estimated that 40-45 per cent of earnings from tourism remain on the island.
62. During 1995 the Mauritian Employers Federation reported that local wages were much higher than in Thailand, Bangladesh, and some other textile-exporting countries.
63. Pamela De St. Antoine, 'Government Delays Worry World Bank ', in Week-End, 1 December 1996, p. 15.
64. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 'Discontent in Mauritius', in ICFTU Online, 28 October 1996.
65. See Bela Balassa, The Newly Industrializing Countries in the World Economy (New York, 1981), and World Bank, World Development Report, 1987 (New York, 1987).
66. See Bela Balassa, The Newly Industrializing Countries in the World Economy (New York, 1981), and World Bank, World Development Report, 1987 (New York, 1987).
67. For a brief review, see Gary Gereffi and Stephanie Fonda, 'Regional Paths of Development', in Judith Blake and John Hagan (eds.), Annual Review of Sociology (Palo Alto, CA, 1992), pp. 433-5.
68. Max Weber, Economy and Society (New York, 1968).
69. Peter B. Evans, Embedded Autonomy (Princeton, NJ, 1995), and Peter B. Evans and John Stephens, 'Development and the World Economy', in Neil Smelser (ed.), Handbook of Sociology (Newbury Park, CA, 1988), pp. 739-73.
70. Peter B. Evans, Embedded Autonomy (Princeton, NJ, 1995), and Peter B. Evans and John Stephens, 'Development and the World Economy', in Neil Smelser (ed.), Handbook of Sociology (Newbury Park, CA, 1988), pp. 739-73.
71. Theda Skocpol, 'Bringing the State Back In: strategies of analysis in current research', in Evans, Rueschemeyer, and Skocpol (eds.), op. cit. p. 17.
72. Bunwaree, op. cit. p. 28.
73. Evans and Stephens, loc. cit. p. 756.
74. See Ellen Kay Trimberger, Revolution From Above (New Brunswick, NJ, 1978), pp. 4-5.
75. Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Peter B. Evans, 'The State and Economic Transformation: toward an analysis of the conditions underlying effective intervention', in Evans, Rueschemeyer, and Skocpol (eds.), op. cit. p. 63.
76. Gereffi and Fonda, loc. cit. pp. 442-3.
77. Evans, op. cit. 1995.
78. A. D. Kincaid and Alejandro Portes, 'Society and Development in the 1990s', in Kincaid and Portes (eds.), Comparative National Development (Chapel Hill, NC, 1990), pp. 14-15.