The West African country has had the most successful coups, with nine takeovers and only one failed coup. The first one happened on January 3, 1966. The only
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The sugar museum in Mauritius (Brian Scott/Picture: SUPPLIED
By STEPHEN HOWES, SHERMAN SURANDIRAN
Both Mauritius and Fiji are remotely located islands situated far from global business centres, both developed as sugar plantation economies, but their economies have taken drastically different paths over the past half a century.
Last year the World Bank reclassified Mauritius as a high-income country. Its 2019 income (GNI per capita) for the first time exceeded the $US12,535 ($F25,374) threshold for that category.
Fiji, meanwhile, continues to be classified as an upper-middle-income economy, with its 2019 GNI per capita of $US5800 ($F11,740) at just 46 per cent of the high-income threshold.
A British think tank ranks Estonia’s prosperity 21st highest in the world
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The Legatum Institute, a British think tank, ranks Estonia’s prosperity 21st in the world among 167 ranked countries.
According to the think tank, Estonia performs highly in the natural environment and the economic quality categories of the index, but is the weakest in the health category. However, the institute says the biggest improvement compared with a decade ago came in the health category.
The institute also notes that since 2010, Estonia has moved up in the rankings by three places.
The Legatum Prosperity Index is based on over a hundred different variables analysed across 67 nations around the world. Source data includes the Gallup World Poll, the World Development Indicators, the International Telecommunication Union, the Fragile States Index, the Worldwide Governance Indicators, Freedom House, the World Health Organisation, the World Values Survey, Amnesty International and