Economic and Social Structure of Mauritius

Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 The issues in outline: the implications of population growth; the prospects for emigration; the need for capital; the importance of low labour costs to economic expansion; prospects in the sugar industry; prospects in other branches of agriculture; prospects in industry; the creation by government of the conditions of growth; summary. Part 3 The structure of the economy: population; the national accounts; output; income; expenditure; external trade and the balance of payments; visible trade; invisible transactions; the balance of payments; summary. Part 4 Labour: present unemployment; growth in the working population; attitudes to manual work; recruitment and conditions of labour in the sugar industry; the employment exchange service; the recruitment and employment of young people; the trade union movement; emigration. Part 5 Agriculture: climate and soil; land utilization; sugar - area and cultivation of sugar land, sugar production, sugar mills, science and sugar - the Sugar Industry Research Institute, the organization of the sugar industry, the sale of sugar, and the sugar industry funds; other non-pastoral agriculture - tea, tobacco, ginger, food crops, the aloe fibre industry and the sack factory, forestry; livestock -general considerations, the dairy industry, beef production, venison, goats, sheep, pigs, domestic rabbits, poultry, sea fishing; the organization of agriculture - the Department of Agriculture, the Board of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Resources, land settlements and allotments, the co-operative movement, marketing. Part 6 Industry: general considerations; the present structure of industry; industries of importance and interest - sugar, engineering, tanneries and footwear, soap, oil and the oil islands, matches, woodworking, beverages, watch and instrument jewels, textiles and clothing, building and allied trades, salt, lime, cottage industries, tourism; the role of government in industry - the provision of industrial services, government and productive industry. Part 7 Finance: public finance - the principal sources of government revenue, company tax, personal income tax, import duties, other taxes, summary of taxation proposals, government expenditure, the current surplus, the capital budget, revenue for the capital development programme, budget contributions, reserves, internal loans, external finance, private finance, the commercial banks, the cooperative movement, the local share market, the agricultural bank. Part 8 Education: the Mauritian education system; primary education - the pressure on places, the language problem, the need for central schools, the age of entry, examination results; secondary education - the private schools, "comprehensive" and "multi-lateral" schools, the English scholarships, teacher training, technical education. Part 9 The machinery of government. Part 10 Summary of recommendations.