Did mauritius really provide a ‘case study in Malthusian economics’?

David Greenaway and Chris Milner

Journal of International Development, 1991, vol. 3, issue 3, 325-338

Abstract: In the early 1960s James Meade visited Mauritius as adviser to a Commission evaluating population structure and growth. Out of that visit emerged two papers which were Malthusian in their prognosis of economic prospects for Mauritius. This paper reconsiders the Meade evaluation and compares his predictions with actual outcomes. As it turns out, his pessimism was not justified. The factors which led him to reach his set of conclusions, and the factors which explain actual economic performance, are both assessed in detail.

Date: 1991
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