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The Textiles and Clothing Industry and Economic Development: A Case Study of Mauritius

In: Innovation Policies and International Trade Rules

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  • Aveeraj S. Peedoly

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The export-oriented development strategy promoted by the Mauritian government from the 1970s onwards and which was centred mainly around the manufacturing of textiles and clothing (TC) has been a key element in the take-off and sustained growth of the economy (Burn, 1996; Durbarry, 2001) and earned itself the success which has in many ways distinguished Mauritius from the rest of Africa (Wignaraja and Lall, 1998; Wignaraja, 2002). Over the course of three decades, the Mauritian TC sector has established itself as the most developed TC industry in Sub-Saharan Africa (HPC Report, 2002) and has arguably ‘compacted in this time period what the industry in Western Europe achieved over almost 200 years and the “tigers” in Asia in almost 50 years’ (Gherzi Report, 2000: 2). At the turn of the twenty-first century, Mauritius was the world’s second-largest fully fashioned knitwear producer, the third-largest exporter of new wool products and Europe’s fourth-largest supplier of T-shirts (Tait, 2002).

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  • Aveeraj S. Peedoly, 2009. "The Textiles and Clothing Industry and Economic Development: A Case Study of Mauritius," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kaushalesh Lal & Pierre A. Mohnen (ed.), Innovation Policies and International Trade Rules, chapter 5, pages 141-194, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24620-1_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230246201_5
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