## Mauritius: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, July 21, 2008_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 21, 2008
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451827859.002

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### Scope and objective
- Assesses the external competitiveness of Mauritius over the period 1980–2007, with particular attention to the most recent years.
- Estimates the equilibrium real exchange rate using three approaches:
  - the macroeconomic balance approach
  - the single-equation equilibrium exchange rate approach
  - the capital-enhanced equilibrium exchange rate approach
- Analyzes a wealth of structural competitiveness indicators.

### Key findings
- The real exchange rate at the end of 2007 was broadly in line with its equilibrium value.

### Analytical focus and topics covered
- Consumer price indexes
- CPI inflation
- Exchange rates (Nominal effective exchange rate; Real effective exchange rates; Real exchange rates; Nominal exchange rate; Mauritian rupee)
- Foreign exchange
- Inflation, inflation distribution, inflation process
- Price controls, price variability, prices
- Interest rate
- Forecasting exercise, liberalization inflation development

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## Content in this bundle

- **Mauritius: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 08/237; June 18, 2008.**
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