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LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT UNDER THE “NIC” MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT: RECENT EVIDENCE FROM MAURITIUS
Author(s) -
Pandit Kavita
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
singapore journal of tropical geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9493
pISSN - 0129-7619
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9493.1995.tb00074.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , economics , capital (architecture) , production (economics) , service (business) , developing country , capital accumulation , labour economics , development economics , human capital , economic growth , economy , geography , macroeconomics , archaeology
The export‐based development strategies of the Newly Industrialising Countries (NICs) of East Asia, associated with high labour absorption in manufacturing, low unemployment rates, and rising skill levels, are often suggested as a model for other developing countries. The paper examines labour and employment trends from 1963 to 1988 in Mauritius, a country that explicitly adopted the NIC model in the early seventies. The trends show a number of similarities to NIC labour and employment patterns. The gains made since 1970, ironically, present constraints to sustaining economic development based on labour intensive production. Mauritius faces unique opportunities and challenges as it begins to make the shift to capital intensive manufacturing and service activities, the final step to NIC status.