Population 1.2 million 
Percapita income 11,000 dollars
Output essentially sugar, some textiles.
So how does cane garner millions in income - it does not.  It is flight capital 
at work, a gift from places like India
from where there is liitle reason to flee. Tax rates are very low in India 
investment subsidies are generous.
One does see an interesting rotation of funds with with cash sent back as 
foreign investment in India.  It probalyaccounts for the purchase of a few 
thousand jets by a dozen airlines and investments in toll roads, ports and 
airfields.
The bania can actually visit his money in Mauritius and eat currry with his 
personal banker.

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