{"id":11265,"date":"2012-06-08T23:04:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/mauritius-foreign-direct-investment-up-15-pct\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T23:04:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T21:04:58","slug":"mauritius-foreign-direct-investment-up-15-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mauritius-foreign-direct-investment-up-15-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius foreign direct investment up 15 pct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PORT LOUIS, June 8<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Foreign direct investment in<br \/>\nMauritius rose by 15.5 percent in the first three months of 2012<br \/>\nto 1.598 billion rupees ($53.4 million), the central bank said<br \/>\non Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The country, which markets itself as a bridge between Africa<br \/>\nand Asia, was hit last year by the global downturn that curbed<br \/>\ninvestment flows, which dropped 32.2 percent to 9.456 billion<br \/>\nrupees.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The central bank said the first quarter investment was<br \/>\nmainly directed towards the real estate sector, attracting 745<br \/>\nmillion rupees, followed by construction, which got 500 million.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa was the biggest source of foreign direct<br \/>\ninvestment with 511 million rupees followed by France, which put<br \/>\nin 341 million.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mauritius is diversifying its economy away from the sugar,<br \/>\ntextiles and tourism sectors into offshore banking, business<br \/>\noutsourcing, luxury real estate and medical tourism.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>($1 = 29.9000 Mauritius rupees)\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jean Paul Arouff; Editing by Duncan Miriri, John<br \/>\nStonestreet)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT LOUIS, June 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Foreign direct investment in Mauritius rose by 15.5 percent in the first three months of 2012 to 1.598 billion rupees ($53.4 million), the central bank said on Friday. The country, which markets itself as a bridge between Africa and Asia, was hit last year by the global downturn that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}