Why Mauritius ?

While Mauritius is generally renowed for its tourism attraction, it is also regarded as  Africa's first tiger economy', supported by a robust, education and social infrastructure. In addition, Mauritius is a highly active Freeport and so functions  as a substantial duty-free distribution hub for the south-east African region.

Furthermore, it has a strong financial services sector which facilitates the growth of off-shore companies.

Key Indicators

Mauritius has got several advantages which ease Investment

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_^• Strategic Location 
_^• Democracy,Political, Economic & Social Stability 
_^• Favorable Diplomatic Relations 
_^• A very good infrastructure with good communications 
_^• Leading Economy in SADC/COMESA/IOC/SSA 
_^• An excellent network of sea and air transport 
_^• A free market economy anchored on export oriented activities 
_^• A highly literate, bilingual and well trained labour force. 
_^• High standard of living, good international schools 
_^• Favourable market access and very good incentives 
_^• An experienced financial sector providing excellent services

Mauritius is a strategic location

_^• Located at the crossroads of Asia and Africa 
_^• Easy Access to both continents 
_^• Highly developed digital network 
_^• Tourist attractions 
_^• Increased air flights 
_^• Viewed as a bench mark in the African region and small island economies
_^• Located at the crossroads of Asia and Africa 

Mauritius is a leading economy in the region

_^• Increase in the exports to SADC members
_^• Preferential trade and tariff agreements through the SADC/COMESA/IOC trade protocol. 
_^• Mauritius inspires confidence in these regional blocs (less corruption/more compliance with international standards) 
_^• State of the art infrastructure to sustain both regional and global trade 
_^• Bilingual (Communication easy in both Francophone/Anglophone countries) 
_^• Banking & Finance : No exchange control 
_^• Mauritius being the first of SADC/COMESA countries to become a Medical hub 
_^• New private hospitals to offer quality medical services to both local and regional patients 
_^• Mauritius offers a unique freeport facilities to traders in the region. 
_^• Promising GDP 
_^• Politically most stable in the region 
_^• Mauritius is ranked 23rd out of 155 countries according to the world bank for doing business.

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Mauritius as Medical Hub

 Government strategy to make Mauritius a medical hub with the objectives to: 

_^• Offer high tech medical services to tourists
_^• Offer a more competitive medical services in the region
_^• To sustain this strategy the Government is attracting foreign manufacturers/suppliers of 
Medical/pharmaceutical products through both financial and non-financial incentives 
_^• Encouraging joint-ventures/alliances with firms of international reputes

Sophisticated Freeport Logistics 

_^• Inspired from Singaporean model 
_^• Sea and air
_^• Conducive Storage capacity (Pharmaceuticals product cluster)
_^• Warehouse adjacent to container terminals
_^• Packaging, co-packaging facilities
_^• Competitive port handling charges
_^• Secure environment
_^• Business-friendly environment
_^• A centralized platform for distribution

Mauritius is a stable country 

Political stability

_^• No terrorist risk
_^• No risk of coup d’état
_^• Good administration of law and order
_^• Good diplomatic relationship on the international arena
_^• Free and fair election
_^• Good governance 

Economic stability

_^• One digit inflation
_^• Increasing GDP
_^• Openings to foreign investors
_^• Health budget increase
_^• High literacy work force (free education) 

Social stability

_^• No social unrest
_^• Increase in budget for social services 

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Technological development

_^• Up-to-date with new technology
_^• Massive investment in ICT
_^• The Cyber island

This stability already signals a high level of confidence for investors because the risk profile is not alarming at all as in other countries.