Mauritius: Staff Report for the 2001 Article IV Consultation
IMF Staff Country Reports, May 22, 2001
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Bibliographic details
- Published: May 22, 2001
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451827729.002
Key findings on economic activity
- Mauritius experienced a rebound in economic activity, following a severe drought.
Monetary policy and exchange rate
- Executive Directors welcomed the tightening of monetary policy.
- Executive Directors noted the reversal of the real currency appreciation.
Financial sector and institutional framework
- Executive Directors supported the initiatives to strengthen and modernize the financial sector.
- Executive Directors supported initiatives to strengthen the institutional framework for the conduct of monetary and exchange rate policy.
Labor market and statistics
- Executive Directors emphasized the need to reduce unemployment.
- Executive Directors suggested that the quality and timeliness of economic and financial statistics are satisfactory from the standpoint of conducting surveillance.
Subjects covered
- Balance of payments
- Banking
- Commercial banks
- Current account balance
- Exports
- Financial institutions
- Imports
- International trade
- Public debt
Keywords
- Commercial banks
- consumer price inflation
- CR
- currency appreciation
- Current account balance
- deficit
- enterprise
- exchange rate
- Exports
- GDP
- Global
- government's privatization program
- IMF's assessment
- Imports
- ISCR
- Mauritian authorities
- Mauritian rupee
- Mauritius
- regime
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- U.S. dollar