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Vencataya, Lomendra, Sharmila Pudaruth, Ganess Dirpal, and Vandisha Narain. "Assessing the Causes & Impacts of Traffic Congestion on the Society, Economy and Individual: A Case of Mauritius as an Emerging Economy." Studies in Business and Economics 13, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 230–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2018-0045.
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Abstract Mauritius has undergone massive developments during the past several years. However, along with economic progress, these developments have also been the cause of trouble for the Mauritian population as they have worsened the problem of traffic congestion. Providing state-of-the-art transportation systems is thus crucial for the proper functioning of the Mauritian economy and society. Hence, the paper explores the repercussions that traffic congestion has on the society, economy, and individual. Also, the paper seeks to examine the impact of traffic congestion on several aspects, such as worker productivity, economic growth, commuter health and safety, travel reliability, and the environment. Questionnaires have been helpful tools in obtaining quantitative data. A sample of 100 respondents, consisting of people travelling to and from Ebene and Port Louis on a daily or regular basis, was selected using convenience sampling. The data obtained were then analysed through the SPSS software. Results indicated that traffic congestion negatively impacted on various aspects of the society and economy. The study has depicted that the respondents have affirmed that traffic congestion has an adverse effect on the society, the economy, and the individual. The paper discusses important practical issues relating to traffic congestion in Mauritius, its sources and its effects on the society, the economy, and the individual. Thus, it provides insights to the Mauritian Government and policy-makers on the ways in which they can measure traffic congestion, manage traffic more effectively, adopt appropriate policies, and invest in infrastructural projects. This paper is apt, original, and a must-read as it discusses such issues as traffic congestion, its roots, and its repercussions on the Mauritian society, economy, and individual.
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Dawoor, Yagnishsing. "Walking on fire: Limits, transgressions and possibilities in the worlds of literature. An interview with Ananda Devi." French Cultural Studies 32, no. 4 (May 24, 2021): 459–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09571558211012972.
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In the following interview, celebrated Francophone Mauritian writer Ananda Devi considers the implications of her movements between literary worlds, publishers, series and languages as well as her insurgences as a writer and as a woman. Walking on fire, Devi avers, is an apt metaphor for describing her personal and creative approach to navigating the incendiary lines striating her path. Engaging with her most recent works, including Ceux du Large, Danser sur tes Braises suivi de Six Décennies and Fardo, Devi comments on her role as a writer, the manifold potentials of literature and the differing labels and expectations routinely heaped upon her in the Francophone and Anglophone worlds. Over the course of this exchange, she also discusses the reception of her work in France and elsewhere; her experimentations with self-translation and ekphrasis; and the process of creating art during the Covid-19 pandemic. Throughout, Devi expresses her fierce commitment to transgressing limits and taking literature into new terrains.
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Newaj, Avinash, and Adjnu Damar-Ladkoo. "Distorted Facets of Marketing Ethics for Alcoholic Beer Marketing." Studies in Business and Economics 11, no. 2 (August 1, 2016): 79–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2016-0023.
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Abstract Marketing is the art of delivering value whilst ethical marketing is to provide this value through what is morally right. This new era customers are well informed, more knowledgeable, less vulnerable to unethical practices and cannot be easily manipulated by marketers. Many companies are thus, moving towards ethical marketing so as to develop trust among existing and new customers. Strict regulations by the Mauritian government have further forced marketers to act ethically; whereby the advertising of alcoholic beers has been banned. Yet, indirect strategies have been adopted by marketers so as to pave their way in this competitive industry. What are they? Are customers aware about them and are they influenced? Road accidents, social violence and health problems are associated to such malpractice. This study has shed light on the above and measures have been proposed for the benefit of customers, marketers and the government. This study was connected to the ethical theories.
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Wu, H., M. Kumar, E. Fray, R. Siliciano, J. Smedley, G. Meyers, R. Maziarz, et al. "OP 6.7 – 00044 Long-term ART-free SIV Remission Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Mauritian Cynomolgus Macaques." Journal of Virus Eradication 8 (December 2022): 100252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jve.2022.100252.
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Harwood, Olivia E., Lea M. Matschke, Ryan V. Moriarty, Alexis J. Balgeman, Abigail J. Weaver, Amy L. Ellis-Connell, Andrea M. Weiler, et al. "CD8+ cells and small viral reservoirs facilitate post-ART control of SIV replication in M3+ Mauritian cynomolgus macaques initiated on ART two weeks post-infection." PLOS Pathogens 19, no. 9 (September 25, 2023): e1011676. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011676.
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Sustainable HIV remission after antiretroviral therapy (ART) withdrawal, or post-treatment control (PTC), remains a top priority for HIV treatment. We observed surprising PTC in an MHC-haplomatched cohort of MHC-M3+ SIVmac239+ Mauritian cynomolgus macaques (MCMs) initiated on ART at two weeks post-infection (wpi). None of the MCMs possessed MHC haplotypes previously associated with SIV control. For six months after ART withdrawal, we observed undetectable or transient viremia in seven of the eight MCMs, despite detecting replication competent SIV using quantitative viral outgrowth assays. In vivo depletion of CD8α+ cells induced rebound in all animals, indicating the observed PTC was mediated, at least in part, by CD8α+ cells. With intact proviral DNA assays, we found that MCMs had significantly smaller viral reservoirs two wpi than a cohort of identically infected rhesus macaques, a population that rarely develops PTC. We found a similarly small viral reservoir among six additional SIV+ MCMs in which ART was initiated at eight wpi, some of whom exhibited viral rebound. These results suggest that an unusually small viral reservoir is a hallmark among SIV+ MCMs. By evaluating immunological differences between MCMs that did and did not rebound, we identified that PTC was associated with a reduced frequency of CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocyte subsets expressing exhaustion markers. Together, these results suggest a combination of small reservoirs and immune-mediated virus suppression contribute to PTC in MCMs. Further, defining the immunologic mechanisms that engender PTC in this model may identify therapeutic targets for inducing durable HIV remission in humans.
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Waters, Julia. "Lieu de mémoire, lieu d’oubli, lieu de réparation?" Francosphères 10, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/franc.2021.4.
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The destruction of the vernacular case créole has emerged as a striking, recurrent theme in contemporary Mauritian cultural production, as well as a cause of much heated public debate. Reflecting contrasting conceptions of a lieu de mémoire - linked, paradoxically, to processes of memory, loss, forgetting, and occlusion - this article explores the diverse representations of the colonial house and its destruction in recent artistic works (by Florent Beusse and Jano Couacaud) and novels (by J.M.G. Le Clézio and Gabrielle Wiehe). Initially, the artistic works appear to be motivated by a nostalgic yearning for ‘lost traditions, wrecked ways of life’ (Nora), but close analysis hints at a different story hidden behind the houses’ facades. In the literary imaginary, the destruction of colonial-era houses is portrayed not as the subject of nostalgia or regret, but as a necessary means of achieving long-overdue, symbolic reparation for historical injustices. As such, I argue, art and literature offer a site for revealing the ‘récits cachés de la mémoire nationale’ (Nora) - particularly around slavery - in the postcolonial present.
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Toorawa, Shawkat M. "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Art?: Carl de Souza's La Maison qui marchait vers le large and the Mauritian City." L'Esprit Créateur 41, no. 3 (2001): 197–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp.2010.0049.
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Antonietti Lopes, Tania Mara. "Le livre des fuites, de J.M.G. Le Clézio e a permanência do romance." IPOTESI – REVISTA DE ESTUDOS LITERÁRIOS 26, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.34019/1982-0836.2022.v26.38948.
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Este artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre a permanência do romance como um gênero literário adaptável ao seu tempo. Publicado em 1969, Le livre des fuites constitui a primeira fase da produção do escritor franco-mauriciano J.M.G. Le Clézio. O livro explora o tema da linguagem e de uma escrita dialógica que registra a crise existencial de um autor que questiona a função da arte literária. A base teórica se fundamenta em Bakhtin (2019), Robbe-Grillet (1969), Walter Benjamin (1994), entre outros. Palavras-chave: Le Clézio. Le livre des fuites. Autocrítica. Crise. Romance. LE LIVRE DES FUITES, DE J.M.G. LE CLÉZIO AND THE PERSISTENCE OF THE NOVEL ABSTRACT: This article proposes to reflect on the persistence of the novel as a literary genre adaptable to its own time. Le livre des fuites, published in 1969, is part of the first phase of the literary output of Franco-Mauritian writer J.M.G. Le Clézio. The book explores the themes of language and of a kind of dialogical writing suitable to register the existential crisis of an author who puts into question the function of literary art. The theoretical framework in use here borrows from works by Bakhtin (2019), Robbe-Grillet (1969), Walter Benjamin (1994) and others. Keywords: Le Clézio. Le livre des fuites. Self-Criticism. Crises. Novel.
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Guan, Zhijie, Yue Zhang, and Ip Ping Sheong Jim Kwee Fat. "Trade Relations Between Mauritius and China: A Gravity Model Approach." SAGE Open 11, no. 4 (October 2021): 215824402110581. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211058184.
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Trade between Mauritius and China has been increasing at a rapid pace. As there are only few studies about Sino-Mauritian trade, there is therefore a need to study the determinants affecting trade flows between the two countries. This paper uses the “Gravity Model” with a sample data of 23 years (1997–2019) to analyze the trade between Mauritius and China. The results show that GDP’s growth rate, exchange rate, and FDI both have significant effects on Mauritian trade; however the former has a positive effect while the latter two has a negative one. The economic mass of the two countries have promoted trade, while an appreciation in Chinese currency and large amounts of direct investment have on the other side hindered Mauritian trade. A concrete trade agreement between the two sides can help in reducing the costs of trade between the two countries and improve the situation.
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Lim Tung, Odile Juliette. "The Adequacy of the Mauritian Biosafety Framework." Journal of African Law 58, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 109–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002185531300017x.
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AbstractThis article analyses the Mauritian regulatory framework on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and highlights its shortcomings, with the aim of improving the regulation of the approval and monitoring of the use of GMOs in Mauritius. It examines key issues regarding the application for a GMO permit, risk assessment requirements, identification and labelling obligations, post-market monitoring, and liability and redress in the case of damages. There is a need for greater public participation in decision-making on the approval of GMO permits and the monitoring stage procedure, specific civil liability provisions for damage as well as regulation of the coexistence of genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crops in the Mauritian biosafety framework. Pending the proclamation of the entire Mauritian GMO Act 2004, relevant transitional provisions should also be provided. Beyond legal provisions on biosafety, a national policy on GM products and GMO-related activities should be elaborated.
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Allam, Zaheer, A. Dhunny, Gaëtan Siew, and David Jones. "Towards Smart Urban Regeneration: Findings of an Urban Footprint Survey in Port Louis, Mauritius." Smart Cities 1, no. 1 (October 23, 2018): 121–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/smartcities1010007.
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The Smart City Scheme, as part of the Smart Mauritius initiative, adopted by the Government of Mauritius in 2014, heavily incentivised the emergence of new smart cities in greenfields. The resulting migration of business and residents from existing cities to new cities affected the liveability standard of existing cities and encouraged property speculation. This shift reduced home pricing affordability further from the grasp of young professionals. With the Mauritian Landlord and Tenant Act of 1999 discouraging investment in Mauritian city centres, property developers were additionally encouraged to invest in housing projects in these emerging Smart Cities. As part of the Smart Urban Regeneration strategy of Port Louis that sought to reduce competition between new and existing cities, the provision of housing was seen as paramount to enabling the Smart Cities concept as promoted by the Government. The findings of this paper, which explores the urban footprint of Port Louis through field survey, provides insights, as to the components of the city, that can assist policy-makers and developers to better shape projects that are more responsive to the Smart Urban Regeneration plan.
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Auerbach, Jess. "Conscripting communalism: surveillance and resistance in contemporary Mauritius." Africa 93, no. 4 (October 11, 2023): 522–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972023000608.
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AbstractIn this article I explore changing state–citizen relationships in Mauritius. To do so, I outline and provide analysis of the system through which this Indian Ocean island has historically managed its diversity – a process that I call conscripting communalism. Conscripting communalism was formulated at independence in a context of behavioural predictions for the future that the internet era has challenged in powerful ways. To illustrate my argument, I explore three specific moments when ethnic and religious discourses were surpassed by collective concern within a rapidly authoritarianizing state: first, the sinking of the Wakashio oil tanker off the coast of Mauritius in 2020, which resulted in national solidarity towards the environment rather than communal violence; second, proposed legislation put forward by the Mauritian Information and Communication Technology Authority (ICTA) in 2021, which attempted to enable state surveillance of social media and which was soundly resisted by both domestic and external parties. And finally, I explore 2022 accusations that the Mauritian government authorized the installation of digital interception technology by representatives of the Indian state on one of the country’s fibre optic cables. The article argues that Mauritius represents an important site of analysis of the tensions between competing global visions of human rights, political autonomy, surveillance, solidarity and expectations for the future and the role of the internet in shaping these competing visions. I explore how new technologies have become the tools of both repression and resistance. The implications ripple far beyond the island.
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Lim Tung, Odile Juliette. "Rethinking the Regulation of Environment Impact Assessment and Precaution in Mauritius." Journal of African Law 61, no. 2 (May 16, 2017): 227–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855317000110.
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AbstractAs a small island developing state, Mauritius needs to manage its natural assets with a precautionary approach, especially as the tourism industry is one of the main pillars of its economy. While the precautionary principle has no statutory value in Mauritius, it serves as a guiding principle in environmental decision making. Since 1993, the assessment of impact has been mandatory under the Environment Protection Act (EPA) for major development activities, to avoid activities that may have a significant adverse impact on the environment and society. The local impact assessment procedure currently includes two categories of undertakings listed in the EPA, namely the environment impact assessment (EIA) and the preliminary environment report for undertakings with less environmental and socio-economic impact. This article examines the Mauritian EIA regulatory mechanism and seeks to strengthen the EIA process with a precautionary approach, to achieve more effective regulation and implementation.
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Issur, Kumari. "Mapping ocean-state Mauritius and its unlaid ghosts: Hydropolitics and literature in the Indian Ocean." Cultural Dynamics 32, no. 1-2 (January 25, 2020): 117–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374019900703.
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In the wake of what has been termed “the scramble for the oceans,” the Republic of Mauritius lodged an application in 2012 with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to recognize its rights to an Exclusive Economic Zone that comprises a large expanse of the Indian Ocean, and subsequently redefined itself as an ocean-state. This new configuration raises as many issues as it answers. The Indian Ocean remains firmly central both to Mauritian history and to its imaginary. All at once, the endless fluidity of the ocean renders material traces and academic archeology harder, yet somehow it traps and sediments memory and meaning in some ways more profoundly than land. This article bores and drills into the historical, geopolitical, and ontological depths of ocean-state Mauritius with the figure of the ghost as motif, metaphor, and witness.
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Mujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira. "The Evolution of the Meaning(s) of Penal Servitude for Life (Life Imprisonment) in Mauritius: The Human Rights and Jurisprudential Challenges Confronted So Far and Those Ahead." Journal of African Law 53, no. 2 (September 18, 2009): 222–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855309990040.
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AbstractThis article analyses the history of the various meanings and interpretations of the sentence of penal servitude for life in Mauritius, the human rights implications, and the likely challenges that courts will confront in interpreting new legislation. The Privy Council held in 2008 that a mandatory sentence of penal servitude for life was arbitrary and disproportionate because it violated the right to a fair trial under the constitution. However, the article argues that the Privy Council should also have found that penal servitude for life, where the offender is to be detained for the rest of his life, violates the prisoner's right not to be subjected to inhuman punishment under the constitution, as well as violating Mauritius's international human rights obligations. It recommends that Mauritian courts consult South African jurisprudence when interpreting what amount to substantial and compelling circumstances under the 2007 Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act.
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Choa, Gerarld. "“Between a Rock and Reclaimed Land:” A Structural Comparison between Singaporean and Mauritian Petrifaction Myths Between a Rock and Reclaimed Land: A Structural Comparison of Si-Tanggang and the Pieter Both Folktale." Journal on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 3, no. 3 (July 1, 2021): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/jala.v3-i3-a3.
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This paper investigates the folktale motif, "transformation of human into stone," i.e., petrifaction, in two narratives of different oral cultures; the Mauritian myth of the Pieter Both mountain and the Singaporean Malay iteration of Si-Tanggang. While both stories feature a character petrified as punishment for his misdeeds, the Singaporean retelling of Si-Tanggang makes no mention of a specific location nor geographical feature, unlike the Mauritian folktale and other versions of Si-Tanggang recounted elsewhere in the Malay Archipelago. To discover possible reasons for of functionalism as a folk explanation for natural phenomena by the Singaporean narrative, I conduct a comparative analysis of the two, through a lens of form, Propp (1968), field, and function. The comparison reveals divergences between form and field, in that between Singapore and Mauritius, storytelling as a cultural practice differs in its moralistic, nationalistic and ecological functions. The loss of an explicit geographical link in the Singaporean iteration of Si-Tanggang may be explained by how storytelling in Singapore has largely shed its ecological function. These observations also suggest that structural comparisons of folktales can help further our understanding of each individual oral culture, and in particular, how they have been shaped by historical and sociocultural forces.
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Ramadan, Sherine. "Mauritanian Rock Art: A New Recording." Abgadiyat 5, no. 1 (November 24, 2010): 122–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22138609-00501015.
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Allen, Richard B. "Indian Immigrants and the Legacy of Marronage: Illegal Absence, Desertion and Vagrancy on Mauritius, 1835–1900." Itinerario 21, no. 1 (March 1997): 98–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300022725.
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Even before the abolition of slavery on 1 February 1835, planters on Mauritius had begun to look for free agricultural labourers to work their estates. By the early 1830s, it had become apparent that the local slave population was inadequate to meet the labour needs of the colony's rapidly expanding sugar industry, and the long-term availability of this soon-to-be emancipated work force was also increasingly open to question as the decade progressed. The Act of Abolition promised owners the services of their former slaves, now transformed into ‘apprentices’, as agricultural labourers, but only for a period of six years. Some planters no doubt suspected that the apprenticeship system might come to an end earlier than scheduled, as indeed was to happen in 1839. Others had good reason to suspect that many, if not most, of their apprentices would leave the plantations upon their final emancipation, as indeed they subsequently did. Faced with these realities, Mauritian planters dispatched their agents as far afield as China, Singapore, Ethiopia and Madagascar to search out supplies of inexpensive labour. Their gaze returned continually, however, to the relative close and seemingly inexhaustible manpower of India.
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Damlé, Amaleena. "Fasting, feasting: The resistant strategies of (not) eating in Ananda Devi's Le Voile de Draupadi and Manger l'autre." International Journal of Francophone Studies 22, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 179–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00001_1.
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Abstract This article explores representations of fasting and feasting in Le Voile de Draupadi (1993) and Manger l'autre (2018) by contemporary Francophone Mauritian author, Ananda Devi, teasing out the resistant strategies of (not) eating to the power dynamics entrenched within her global, postcolonial settings in which the politics of gender, neo-colonialism and advanced capitalist consumer culture compete in the regulatory domination of the individual body. Reading these two novels together offers space for reflection on the different meanings ‐ psychical, familial, religious, cultural, political, historical ‐ that converge on the bodies of her protagonists, and the ways that these meanings may exceed singular or conventional interpretations of both fasting and feasting. Written 25 years apart, and set in different locations, one in Mauritius, the second in an unnamed although recognizably western nation, Devi's novels speak to one another across these spaces, tracing the global flows of attitudes towards the body and practices of consumption. In so doing, Devi's writing illuminates the embedded, crisscrossing power dynamics and layered drives exhibited by these fasting, feasting bodies, and their divergent ‐ but resonant ‐ strategies of resistance in the practices of (not) eating across the contemporary, globalized world.
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Mishra, Shubhankar. "Sanskrit as Medium of Cinematic Expression." Journal of Management & Public Policy 15, no. 1 (September 30, 2023): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47914/jmpp.2023.v15i1.005.
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This article is based on excerpts from address by Dr Shubhankar Mishra on the eve of World Sanskrit Day organized by Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius in collaboration with High Commission of India in Mauritius on 1 September 2023. His Excellency Prithvirajsing Roopun, President of Mauritius, graced the occasion as Chief Guest while Mrs K Nandini Singla High Commissioner of India in Mauritius was the guest of honour. In his address, Dr Mishra emphasized the significance Sanskrit as medium of cinematic expression while critiquing the evolution of Sanskrit cinema in India. Dr Mishra represents India in Mauritius as Deputy Secretary General at World Hindi Secretariat. He used the occasion to bolster the legacy of Sanskrit and emphasize the utility of this classical language in the post-modern world. Views of Dr Mishra hold ground as he has done Masters in Sanskrit from Delhi University and has undertaken doctoral research on representation of Sanskrit in Mass Media. He is also author of several books on Indian culture, art, and literature.
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Beebeejaun, Ambareen. "The Anti-Avoidance Provisions of the Mauritius Income Tax Act 1995." International Journal of Law and Management 60, no. 5 (September 10, 2018): 1223–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlma-07-2017-0174.
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Purpose A taxpayer who gets caught under Part VII of the Mauritius Income Tax Act is subjected to a corrective measure only in the form of payment of the amount of tax that would have been due in the absence of the avoidance arrangement, but the consequences set out in the same section do not result in any disincentive to the taxpayer that would ensure the prevention of the occurrence of such type of anti-avoidance practices in the future. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the anti-avoidance provisions in the Mauritius legislation as a weapon against impermissible tax avoidance, and the study also intends to critically analyse the remedies available against taxpayers who enter into impermissible tax avoidance transactions. Design/methodology/approach The methodology adopted for this qualitative study consists of a critical analysis and comparative legal review of the relevant legislation, case laws and literature. The anti-avoidance provisions of the Mauritius legislation will be compared with similar provisions of legislations of countries that have rigid preventive rules for anti-avoidance practices, and the selected countries are the UK and Australia because each country has been successful in diminishing the tax avoidances practices further to the imposition of penalties for impermissible tax avoidance. The black letter approach will also be used through which existing legal provisions, judicial doctrines, scholar articles and budget speeches governing anti-avoidance provisions for each country identified will be analysed. Findings Further to an analysis of the substantial differences between Mauritius anti-avoidance legal provisions and those of the UK and Australia, it is found that the backing of corrective actions by penalties act as a disincentive to prohibit impermissible anti-avoidance practices. The study concludes that, where there is abuse of law, the law needs to provide for penalties that must be suffered by the abuser, and hence, the study calls for an amendment in the Mauritius Income Tax Act to strengthen anti-avoidance provisions, by adopting similar provisions of the laws of Australia and the UK. Originality/value At present, there is no Mauritius literature on the researched topic, and this study will be one of the first academic writings on the subject of penalties for impermissible tax avoidance in Mauritius. The study is a new and unique topic in Mauritius, and for that reason, the study will largely rely on foreign sources that deal with penalties for impermissible tax avoidance, and this will include the Australian Taxation Administrative Act 1953, Australian case laws and the UK Finance Act 2016. This study is being carried out with the view to provide insightful recommendations to the stakeholders concerned in Mauritius to enhance the revenue collection avenues and methodologies for the Mauritius revenue authorities.
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Lindo, Karen U. "Mauritian cinema and global spectators." International Journal of Francophone Studies 13, no. 3 (February 1, 2011): 581–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.13.3-4.581/1.
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Kapina, Tatyana. "The Art Collection of the Oriental Countries of the Mikhail V. Nesterov Bashkir State Art Museum (History of the Collection, Research Issues, Discoveries)." Oriental Courier, no. 4 (2022): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s268684310023808-6.
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The art collection of the Oriental countries is one of the unique in the Mikhail V. Nesterov Bashkir State Art Museum. It includes artifacts of such countries as China, Japan, Mauritanian Spain, Iran and Turkey. The history of the Bashkir State Art Museum began with the collection of Russian Art of the 19th and early 20th centuries gifted by Mikhail V. Nesterov. Thanks to active object donations from various sources in the 1920s and 1930s, the structure of the Nesterov museum collection became much broader than just the art of Russia. It is precisely in those years that the collection of Oriental art began to form. Despite the lack of its focus, art pieces that came from various sources are of great interest and demonstrate the artistic culture of different Eastern countries.
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Wettges, Martin, and Nina Voit. "Sozialpräventive und musiktherapeutische Arbeit auf Mauritius." Musik-, Tanz- und Kunsttherapie 24, no. 2 (April 2013): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1026/0933-6885/a000104.
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Der folgende Artikel beschreibt ein Projekt, welches auf besondere Art und Weise sozialpräventive, pädagogische und musiktherapeutische Ansätze verbindet und daher ein Beispiel für gelungene interdisziplinäre Arbeit darstellt. Da dieses Projekt–Vent d’un Rêve–bisher lokal auf die Insel Mauritius beschränkt ist, wird zu Beginn ein historischer Überblick über die gesellschaftliche und musikalische Entwicklung der Inselrepublik gegeben. Dieser offenbart die reiche kulturelle Vielfalt und das Potential für Musikpädagogik und das Konzert- und Opernwesen. Nach genauer Beschreibung des Musikschulprojekts, das seine ideologischen Wurzeln in der venezolanischen Orchesterbewegung „El Sistema” hat, folgt eine Zusammenfassung der musiktherapeutischen und sozialpräventiven Möglichkeiten, die „Vent d’un Rêve” zu einem Vorbild für die internationale Sozialpädagogik und Musikpädagogik macht.
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Novita Elpasari, Jerina. "UNILATERAL CLAIM OVER CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO AS BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY (BIOT) BY UNITED KINGDOM BASED ON INTERNATIONAL LAW." Padjadjaran Journal of International Law 3, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): 49–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.23920/pjil.v3i1.311.
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AbstractIn 1965, United Kingdom (UK) made a unilateral claim over the Chagos Archipelago as British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) based on the BIOT Order of 1965 and Statutory Instrument of 1965 No. 1020. Due to this unilateral act, the Chagos Archipelago no longer parts of Mauritius. Problem arising from Britain's unilateral claim to the territory was further aggravated by the United Kingdom’s act in enforcing population transfer towards all Chagos islanders (Chagossians) out of the territory without adequate compensations and resettlement. This research aims to analyze the legality of unilateral claims over the Chagos archipelago as a BIOT and the enforced transfer of Chagossians from their original residential place by the United Kingdom. It argues that under international law, Chagos Archipelago is recognized as an area that should remain integrated within the territory of Mauritius. It further argues that the UK has violated international law by committing enforced population transfer.Keywords: BIOT, Enforced Population Transfer, Territory, The Chagos Archipelago, Unilateral Act.
AbstrakPada tahun 1965, Inggris melakukan klaim sepihak atas wilayah Kepulauan Chagos sebagai British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) berdasarkan British Indian Ocean Territory Order of 1965 dan Statutory Instrument of 1965 No. 1020. Kepulauan Chagos merupakan bagian dari Mauritius pada saat Mauritius berada dibawah penjajahan Inggris. Tindakan yang dilakukan oleh Inggris terhadap wilayah tersebut berdampak pada terpisahnya kepulauan Chagos dari Mauritius. Permasalahan yang timbul dari Klaim sepihak Inggris atas wilayah tersebut kemudian turut diperparah dengan tindakan Inggris yang melakukan pemindahan paksa seluruh penduduk kepulauan Chagos (Chagossians) dari wilayah tersebut tanpa kompensasi dan tempat tinggal pengganti yang layak serta memadai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis legalitas klaim sepihak terhadap kepulauan Chagos sebagai BIOT dan pemindahan Chagossians dari tempat tinggal asalnya secara paksa yang dilakukan oleh Inggris sebagai enforced population transfer. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa wilayah kepulauan Chagos diakui sebagai wilayah yang seharusnya tetap terintegrasi dalam wilayah Mauritius dan penetapan wilayah tersebut sebagai BIOT telah bertentangan dengan prinsip dan ketentuan hukum internasional. Kata Kunci: BIOT, Enforced Population Transfer, Kepulauan Chagos, Tindakan Sepihak, Wilayah
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Arnold, Markus. "The Mauritian Novel: Fictions of Belonging, Julia Waters (2018)." International Journal of Francophone Studies 24, no. 1 (September 1, 2021): 149–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00033_5.
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CHANZAN-GILLILG, SUZANNE. "Ethnicity and free exchange in Mauritian society*." Social Anthropology 8, no. 1 (January 19, 2007): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2000.tb00205.x.
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Preston, Margaretha J., and Swaleha Peeroo. "An analysis of the possibility to implement a CSI tax levy in South Africa: Lessons from Mauritius." De Jure 55, no. 1 (August 14, 2023): 280–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2225-7160/2023/v56a19.
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"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases."1 The Mauritius corporate social responsibility (CSR) landscape changed profoundly in 2009 with the addition of sections 50K and 50L to the Income Tax Act 16 of 1995 (Mauritius), making contributions to a CSR fund mandatory. Before 2009, the Mauritius government repeatedly called on the private sector for assistance to overcome unemployment, poverty, and other challenges in their country. Due to an unsatisfactory response to their request and factors such as poverty, and high unemployment levels, the government made the drastic decision to implement mandatory CSR legislation. The main objective of this study was to investigate the factors contributing to the enactment of mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) legislation in Mauritius and the possibility to implement similar legislation in South Africa. An analysis of the Mauritius tax legislation and relevant government publications scrutinised, by way of a literature review, revealed that what is referred to as mandatory CSR, is in fact mandatory corporate social investment (CSI). The study further indicated that the same socioeconomic factors as those present in Mauritius prior to 2009 and worse apply to South Africa. An analysis of South African CSI practices and contributions indicated that an additional R3.111 billion could have been raised if a 2 per cent CSI levy was applied to after-tax profits of certain categories of companies, as in Mauritius. This represents 1.2 per cent of the South African Department of Social Development's 2022/2023 budget. It is recommended that similar legislation should be considered for South Africa. It will ensure that all profitable companies in South Africa contribute to CSI and that more funds will be available to address some of the socio-economic needs. The study addressed the gap in empirical research done in Mauritius after 2018 and 2020 and is also the first comparative study conducted on this topic regarding South African law.
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Ramlall, Indranarain. "Broad Money Demand in Mauritius with Implications for Monetary Policy." Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies 4, no. 8 (August 15, 2012): 436–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v4i8.345.
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This paper employs ECM approach to investigate the long run and short-run components of the broad money demand function in Mauritius for the period spanning from 2000 to 2009. To the author’s best knowledge, no study has been undertaken over broad money in Mauritius since 1992, with an update being long overdue. Results show that M2 is positively elastic with respect to GDP, with the elasticity coefficient revolving around 2.80%, clearly showing that Mauritius is not endowed with a fully developed financial system with monetization moving faster than output. The low adjustment coefficient for VECM furthers substantiates the fact that there is indeed a lack of alternative assets to M2 and above all fully justifies the transition from monetary targeting to interest rate targeting. Evidence is found in favor of foreign asset substitution but only through the exchange rate channel. Findings further show that the local stock market does not act as a substitute to local money holdings. Overall, the study points out a rather stable demand for money function in Mauritius so that the monetary authority can contemplate using it as a complementary tool but chiefly for long-run policy assessments.
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Classen, Albrecht. "Courtliness and Transgression at Arthur’s Court With Emphasis on the Middle High German Poet Neidhart and the Anonymous Verse Novella Mauritius von Craûn." Arthuriana 20, no. 4 (December 2010): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/art.2010.a411717.
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Kumar, Betchoo Nirmal. "Towards a Policy on Assessment Methodology for Malagasy Students at the Universite Des Mascareignes." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 13, no. 28 (October 31, 2017): 358. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2017.v13n28p358.
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With an increase in the intake of foreign students to the Université des Mascareignes (UdM), there are arguments on reviewing the assessment system in force in the university. It might be correct to assume that universities have the flexibility of providing various forms of assessments but these have to be tailored to the needs of contemporary students. The research is based on the fact that Malagasy and foreign students coming from the African region have different educational backgrounds that differ from the Mauritian Anglo-Saxon inherited system with formal examinations and a little change in evaluations recently. The fact that foreign students are now an integral part of the university revealed that Malagasy students, taken as a sample of the research, tended to favour the use of French language and appeared to be more versed in practical applications of learning provided by the UdM. This situation puts them in slight confrontation with Mauritian students who are more apt to learn by heart and assimilate English language without much difficulty. In view of this situation, the researcher claims that it might be possible to make assessments more flexible and adaptable to such foreign students while confirming that the essence of formal examinations should be maintained. This approach could be more practical as evaluation suited to the needs and of foreign students at the UdM.
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Turenne, Sophie. "FREE SPEECH AND SCANDALISING THE COURT IN MAURITIUS." Cambridge Law Journal 74, no. 1 (March 2015): 7–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008197315000124.
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AT the behest of the Law Commission, Contempt of Court: Scandalising the Court (18 December 2012), Parliament recently abolished the common law offence of scandalising the court (s. 33 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013). But the offence is still frequently found in many parts of the common law world and the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Dhooharika v DPP of Mauritius [2014] UKPC 11; [2014] 3 W.L.R. 1081 may indicate its future in common law jurisdictions. The Privy Council was asked to decide, inter alia, whether the common law offence was compatible with s. 12 of the Constitution of Mauritius. Section 12 protects a person's freedom of expression but also makes saving for any law, or any act done pursuant to law, which aims to maintain the authority and independence of the courts and which is reasonably justifiable to that end.
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Fritz, Carika, and Thabo Legwaila. "The intersection between taxation and insolvency — The South African Revenue Service’s preference." South African Law Journal 138, no. 4 (2021): 799–817. http://dx.doi.org/10.47348/salj/v138/i4a6.
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When a debtor’s estate is sequestrated or an insolvent company is wound up, insolvency and taxation intersect whenever the debtor or company has an outstanding tax debt. This article considers whether the South African Revenue Service should, or could, be provided with a better standing in cases of insolvency. From a comparison of the situations in South Africa, Mauritius, Australia and the United Kingdom, it is clear that South Africa’s approach of determining the order of distribution in relation to tax claims based on the type of tax is in line with the approaches of Mauritius and the United Kingdom. However, s 179 of the Tax Administration Act and ss 114 and 147(1) of the Customs and Excise Act may have an impact on a claim by the South African Revenue Service in the event of insolvency. In this respect, we argue that, in instances where a taxpayer is sequestrated or wound up due to insolvency, the Insolvency Act and the Companies Act should take precedence. Since the Insolvency Act provides for a clear order of distribution both in respect of the insolvent estates of natural persons and when an insolvent company is wound up, tax legislation in South Africa should not be used to deviate from this order of distribution.
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Boolaky, Pran Krishansing. "Corporate governance in the financial services sector of small island economies: A case study of Mauritius." Corporate Ownership and Control 4, no. 3 (2007): 266–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv4i3c2p4.
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This study investigates the practices of corporate governance in the financial services sector of small island economies with special reference to banks and insurance companies in Mauritius with a view to assess the level of compliance. The financial sector is today an important economic pillar on which the government is relying given the imminent recession in the sugar industry. In this respect financial institutions play a key role because they are the core set of the financial sector. It is therefore important for people to have confidence in both banks and insurance companies of their country. This is possible by ensuring compliance with good governance. In Mauritius, the Central Bank has issued its guidelines on good corporate governance for banks and this guide is made in line with the Corporate Governance Code issued by the National Committee on Corporate Governance. Banks are also required to comply with the codes as per the Banking Act 2004 and the Financial Reporting Act 2004. In a similar vein insurance companies should comply with the National Code on Corporate Governance and relevant laws related to good governance of insurance business, such as the Insurance Act 2005, the Financial Services Commission guidelines on Corporate Governance and the Financial Services Development Act 2002. In addition insurance companies should also comply with the Companies Act 2001 and the Financial Reporting Act 2004. This paper initially reports on the practice of corporate governance in the financial services sector of small island economies by drawing data from the Financial Sector Assessment Programme of the International Monetary Fund. A content analysis of the annual reports of companies in the sector is used to assess the level of compliance to corporate governance code in Mauritius and concludes that compliance rate is above 70% as regards board’s composition, audit committee, disclosure of policies and practices. This study reports that there are few cases of noncompliance with the National Code but good governance is necessary in the financial services sector to inspire stakeholders confidence.
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Prabhu, Anjali. "Representation in Mauritian politics: who speaks for African pasts?" International Journal of Francophone Studies 8, no. 2 (August 1, 2005): 183–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.8.2.183/1.
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Moller, Malcolm. "Foundations as strategic vehicles under the Mauritius Foundations Act 2012." Trusts & Trustees 22, no. 6 (June 13, 2016): 691–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tandt/ttw060.
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Myers, Samantha, Fabiola Henri, and Kelly Berkson. "An acoustic and articulatory investigation of the Mauritian vowel inventory." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144, no. 3 (September 2018): 1939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5068485.
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Lorence, David H., and Robert W. Sussman. "Exotic species invasion into Mauritius wet forest remnants." Journal of Tropical Ecology 2, no. 2 (May 1986): 147–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467400000742.
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ABSTRACTTwo stands of mature evergreen wet forest in Mauritius (Mascarene Islands) were sampled for floristic composition to assess the extent of invasion by weedy exotic phanerogams (Brise Fer, 550 m alt.; Bon Courage, 200–260 m alt.). All individuals ≥ 2.5 cm dbh were recor ded in 50×2 m transects totalling 0.1 ha at each site, and 2×2 m seedling plots totalling 40 m were also sampled at each site. Both forests showed a high degree of invasion. Although exotics constituted only 5% of woody species ≥ 2.5 cm dbh at Brise Fer and 14.5% at Bon Courage, they comprised 34.8% and 20.8% of the individuals, respectively. Seedling plots at both sites were dominated by exotics, which comprised 20.6% of the species and 97.4% of the individuals at Brise Fer, and 22.2% of the species and 73.9% of the individuals at Bon Courage. Comparisons are made with Macabé forest, sampled nearly 50 years ago. These data suggest that unless steps are taken to check the spread of exotics, floristic composition at these sites will shift towards total invasion and degradation as has occurred elsewhere on Mauritius.
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Naldi, Gino J. "Self-Determination in Light of the International Court of Justice’s Opinion in the Chagos Case." Groningen Journal of International Law 7, no. 2 (February 28, 2020): 216–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/grojil.7.2.216-235.
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In its Advisory Opinion in Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, delivered in 2019, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was of the view that the decolonisation of Mauritius by the United Kingdom had not been lawfully completed when it achieved independence in 1968. This was due to the separation of the Chagos Archipelago in 1965. After dismissing various challenges to the exercise of its advisory jurisdiction, including the argument that the issue at stake was a territorial dispute between the States and that its jurisdiction was, therefore, being misused to circumvent the UnitedKingdom’s lack of consent to contentious proceedings, the ICJ felt it necessary to explore the nature, scope and content of the right to self-determination and whether it had been validly exercised in this instance. The ICJ found that self-determination had become established as a legal right in the context of decolonisation by the time Mauritius was in the process of securing its independence in the 1960s and that a corollary of the right was that of the territorial integrity of a non-self governing territory, which had not been respected in the case of Mauritius. Accordingly, the United Kingdom’s continued administration of the Chagos Archipelago constituted an ongoing internationally wrongful act, entailing international responsibility, which the United Kingdom was under an obligation to put an end to as soon as possible. While it was for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to determine how the decolonisation of Mauritius was to be realised, in view of the fact that the right to self- determination has an erga omnes character, the ICJ called on all States to co-operate with the UN to that end.
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Ori, Bhooshun, Sudhirsen Kowlessur, Jaysing Heecharan, Neil R. Poulter, Anca Chis Ster, Xin Xia, and Thomas Beaney. "May Measurement Month 2018: an analysis of blood pressure screening results from Mauritius." European Heart Journal Supplements 22, Supplement_H (August 1, 2020): H86—H88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/suaa012.
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Abstract Hypertension is a growing burden worldwide, leading to over 10 million deaths each year. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global initiative of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) aimed at raising awareness of high blood pressure (HBP) and to act as a temporary solution to the lack of screening programmes worldwide. We here provide the results of the 2018 MMM (MMM18) edition in Mauritius. This cross-sectional survey of participants aged ≥18 years was carried out in May 2018. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure of at least 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure of at least 90 mmHg or both. Blood pressure (BP) measurement and statistical analysis followed the standard MMM protocol. Screening was conducted by Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion Unit, which is under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life, mainly in workplaces and community centres, in both rural and urban areas across Mauritius. Of 5471 individuals screened, after multiple imputation, 786 (14.4%) had untreated hypertension. MMM18 was the largest BP screening campaign undertaken in Mauritius. These results suggest that MMM18 is very useful to identify significant numbers of patients with raised BP.
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Tranquille, Danielle. "Inscriptions of dev/fiance: mtissage in Mauritian literature." International Journal of Francophone Studies 8, no. 2 (August 1, 2005): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.8.2.199/1.
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Eisenlohr, Patrick. "Suggestions of Movement: Voice and Sonic Atmospheres in Mauritian Muslim Devotional Practices." Cultural Anthropology 33, no. 1 (February 22, 2018): 32–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca33.1.02.
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In this essay I make a case for the analytic of atmospheres as a way to understand the seemingly ineffable, yet powerful effects of vocal sound on listeners in an Islamic setting. Focusing on the recitation of devotional poetry in honor of the Prophet Muhammad among Mauritian Muslims, I seek to bring together neo-phenomenological approaches to sonic atmospheres with recent anthropological research on the voice that seeks to overcome the opposition of discursive signification and sonic materiality. Detailed examination of sonic events shows that sonic atmospheres enact suggestions of movement that go beyond the metaphorical. Arguing against theories of sonic affect that take the sonic to be an asignifying material flux, I seek to demonstrate that vocal sound’s meaningfulness is internal to the processual nature of its material forms.
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Simião, Cleber dos Santos, Grecica Mariana Colombo, Marcos Josué Schmitz, Patrícia Baptista Ramos, Marcelo Borges Tesser, Wilson Wasielesky, and José María Monserrat. "Inclusion of Amazonian Mauritia flexuosa fruit pulp as functional feed in the diet for the juvenile Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei." Aquaculture Research 51, no. 4 (February 11, 2020): 1731–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/are.14520.
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Beebeejaun, Ambareen. "Unfair dismissal in the Mauritius context: a comparative study." International Journal of Law and Management 60, no. 6 (November 12, 2018): 1299–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlma-07-2017-0158.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to critically analyse the concept of unfair dismissal and to assess the extent to which the Employment Rights Act 2008 is affording protection to employees in Mauritius. The purpose of this study is to also demonstrate that as employees form an integral part of their workplace, their employment cannot be terminated without substantive and procedural fairness. The paper will provide some recommendations to cater for loopholes in existing Mauritius employment legislations. Design/Methodology/Approach To critically examine the topic, the black letter approach is adopted to detail legislations and judgments of courts on the subject matter. A comparative analysis with some other jurisdictions’ employment legislations is also carried out to define, explain and examine the concepts of dismissal, substantive causes such as misconduct and procedural fairness. Findings From the methodologies used, it is found that a substantial reason is not sufficient to conclude whether a dismissal is fair. The law of unfair dismissal has introduced some procedural safeguards to protect the employee from being unfairly and unjustifiably dismissed. The procedural requirements act as guidelines to employers and if they are not followed properly, the dismissal will be unfair. Unfair dismissal needs to be accompanied by remedies from employers, and monetary compensation has been found to be the most appropriate remedy. Originality/Value This paper is amongst the first research work conducted in Mauritius that compares the law of unfair dismissal and its implications with the laws of England and South Africa. The study is carried out with a view to provide practical recommendations in this area of employment law to the relevant stakeholders concerned.
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Kowlessur, Sudhirsen, Bhoosun Ori, Jaysing Heecharan, Xin Xia, Neil R. Poulter, and Thomas Beaney. "May Measurement Month 2019: an analysis of blood pressure screening results from Mauritius." European Heart Journal Supplements 23, Supplement_B (May 1, 2021): B101—B103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/suab051.
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Abstract Hypertension is a growing burden worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 1.13 billion people worldwide suffer from hypertension. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global initiative of the International Society of Hypertension aimed at raising awareness of high blood pressure (BP) and to act as a temporary solution to the lack of screening programmes worldwide. We provide the results of the 2019 MMM (MMM19) edition in Mauritius. This cross-sectional survey of participants aged ≥ 18 years was carried out in May 2019. Hypertension was defined as systolic BP of at least 140 mmHg or diastolic BP of at least 90 mmHg or in those on antihypertensive medication. Blood pressure measurement and statistical analysis followed the standard MMM protocol. Screening was conducted by the Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion Unit, which is under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, mainly in workplaces and community centres, in both rural and urban areas across Mauritius. Of the 8262 individuals screened, after multiple imputations, 950 (14%) had untreated hypertension. May Measurement Month 2019 was the largest BP screening campaign undertaken in Mauritius. These results suggest that MMM19 is useful in the identification of potential patients with raised BP.
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Kowlessur, Sudhirsen, Bhoosun Ori, Jaysing Heecharan, Neil R. Poulter, Wei Wang, and Thomas Beaney. "May Measurement Month 2017: an analysis of blood pressure screening results from Mauritius." European Heart Journal Supplements 24, Supplement_F (September 1, 2022): F25—F27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartjsupp/suac033.
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Abstract Hypertension is a growing burden worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, ∼1.13 billion people worldwide suffer from hypertension. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global initiative of the International Society of Hypertension aimed at raising awareness of high blood pressure (BP) and to act as a temporary solution to the lack of screening programmes worldwide. We provide the results of the 2017 MMM (MMM17) edition in Mauritius. This cross-sectional survey of participants aged 18 years and over was carried out in May 2017. Hypertension was defined as systolic BP of at least 140 mmHg or diastolic BP of at least 90mmHg or in those on antihypertensive medication. Blood pressure measurement and statistical analysis followed the standard MMM protocol. The screening was conducted by the Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion Unit, which is under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, mainly in workplaces and community centres, in both rural and urban areas across Mauritius. Of the 2302 individuals screened, after multiple imputations, 375 (16.3%) had untreated hypertension. May Measurement Month 2017 was the very first BP screening campaign initiated in Mauritius. These results suggest that MMM17 was useful in the identification of potential patients with raised BP.
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Kattan, Victor. "Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965)." Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online 19, no. 1 (May 30, 2016): 419–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757413-00190015.
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This article uses the history of partition to assess when self-determination became a rule of customary international law prohibiting partition as a method of decolonization. In so doing it revisits the partitions of Indochina, Korea, India, Palestine, Cyprus, South Africa, and South West Africa, and explains that UN practice underwent a transformation when the UN General Assembly opposed the United Kingdom’s partition proposals for Cyprus in 1958. Two years later, the UN General Assembly condemned any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country in Resolution 1514 (1960). The illegality of partition under customary international law was raised during the second phase of the South West Africa Cases (1960–1966) in respect of South Africa’s homelands policy, but the International Court of Justice (ICJ) infamously did not address the merits of those cases. The illegality of partition was also raised in the arbitration between the United Kingdom and Mauritius over the establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965. Like the ICJ in the South West Africa Cases, the Arbitral Tribunal decided that it did not have jurisdiction to address the legality of the British excision of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius, even though the legality of the excision was argued at length between counsels for Mauritius and the United Kingdom in their oral pleadings and written statements. However, in their joint dissenting opinion, Judge Rüdiger Wolfrum and Judge James Kateka expressed their opinion that self-determination had developed before 1965, and that consequently the partition was unlawful. This paper agrees that selfdetermination prohibited the partition of Mauritius to establish the British Indian Ocean Territory, a new colony, in 1965 although self-determination probably did not emerge as a rule of customary international law until the adoption of the human rights covenants in 1966, after the excision of the Chagos Archipelago in 1965, but before the passage of the Mauritius Independence Act in 1968.
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Mujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira. "The Mauritian Piracy Act: A Comment on the Director of Public Prosecutions v Ali Abeoulkader Mohamed Decision." Ocean Development & International Law 48, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00908320.2017.1265366.
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Moser, Keith. "J. M. G. Le Clézio and Gérard Gouesbet’s cosmic, ecocentric framework for understanding the nature of human violence." French Cultural Studies 30, no. 3 (July 30, 2019): 232–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155819861048.
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This study investigates the highly original theories about the origins of human violence developed by the physicist Gérard Gouesbet and the Franco-Mauritian writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. Both authors pinpoint the indifferent, cosmic forces that conceived all life as the hidden source of human aggression. In Violences de la nature and Terra Amata, Gouesbet and Le Clézio assert that the very act of existence itself is a violent struggle for survival. Although this biological parasitism is unavoidable due to the universal principles that govern life, both writers urge global society to deviate from its current path. In their biocentric reflections related to the absurdity of the human condition, Gouesbet and Le Clézio contend that we must find a way to end this ‘world war’ and to limit our incessant acts of aggression against the remainder of the cosmos.
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Campbell, Mark. "Betamax V. STC: Alleged Illegality, Public Policy and the Model Law." Asian International Arbitration Journal 17, Issue 2 (October 1, 2021): 183–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/aiaj2021009.
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Public policy can be raised in the context of setting aside or enforcing an arbitral award, and there is within international commercial arbitration a general consensus that the public policy concept should be defined narrowly. There is one aspect of public policy in particular which highlights the tension between the finality of awards and the right of the forum state to uphold its public policy. That is the situation where, in the face of alleged illegality, the arbitral tribunal concludes the underlying contract is lawful and enforceable. The question then arises: should a national court be permitted to re-examine the tribunal’s findings in this regard at the point of setting aside or enforcement? Relying on authorities from Singapore and England, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Betamax v State Trading Corporation – a case appealed from Mauritius and which concerned an alleged breach of public procurement rules – has held that the answer to that question should be no. The Privy Council’s decision will be an important addition to the Model Law jurisprudence on Articles 34(2)(b)(ii) and 36(1)(b)(ii), and one can expect it to be cited and discussed beyond the confines of Mauritius. international arbitration, domestic arbitration, remission, partial remission, suspension of proceedings, Article 34(4) of UNCITRAL Model Law, arbitral tribunal, judicial intervention, powers of arbitrators, modified award, Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996, curability, International Arbitration Act, Singapore Arbitration Act, resumption, fresh evidence.