The fragility of success: Repositioning Mauritian development in the Twenty-First Century

Island Studies Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-178

  Greig, Alastair ^a   Turner, Mark ^b   D'Arcy, Paul ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Development strategy; Development theory; Ethnicity; Globalization; Governance; Mauritius; Small island developing states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864034029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17152593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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