Doing Business

The rapid and balanced development of infrastructure and services over the last decade in Mauritius and a growing reputation as an international business center combined with a sound legal framework and fiscal policies and the regulatory and local infrastructure of a developed market have created a fertile environment for asset holding companies, investment structures and SPVs.

Mauritius is a worldwide reference for political stability and has recently been ranked as the top African country in the Doing Business Report by the World Bank. Mauritius’ 2020 “Ease of Doing Business” rank is no. 13 out of 190 countries. (2019: rank #20; 2018: rank #25; 2017: rank #49)

Economic Freedom

Economic freedom is a crucial component of liberty. It empowers people to work, produce, consume, own, trade, and invest according to their personal choices.

Mauritius continues to be a regional leader in economic freedom, according to the 2019 Index of Economic Freedom provided by The Heritage Foundation in partnership with the Wall Street Journal.

With an overall score of 73.0 (out of max 100), Mauritius is ranking no. 25 (out of 186) in the world, and no. 1 in Africa, directly behind of Germany (no. 24), and ahead of Japan (no. 30), Austria (no. 31), and South Africa (no. 102).

Mauritius is quite unique in the world of today, because the religions of Hinduism (48.5% of the population, according to the 2011 census), Christianity (32.7%), Islam (17.3%) and Buddhism (0.4%) coexist peacefully in a densely populated country.