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The Finance Sector
The Finance and Business segments includes: Financial Services who is emerging as a vital component of the economy in the banking and non-banking offshore sector, such as insurance, stock exchange, leasing etc. These activities take place in Mauritius but are run by people living outside the country. All transactions are made in foreign currency and they fall under the supervision of the Financial Services Commission. Several banks and other international financial companies have chosen to open branches in Mauritius to better capture investment opportunities both in Mauritius and in the region. The numerous drafts of double taxation, investment protection agreements, bilateral agreements and regulatory frameworks are a certain appeal.
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Harmony
Mauritius stall called a "Miracle of peaceful coexistence," for how people with roots in Europe, Asia and Africa, living side by side in harmony and respecting the culture and religion of one and the other. The population of 1.2 million souls, is Hindu religious component, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist. Today, one of the key qualities of this country, it is the non-racism. The official language is generally recognized as English but everyone speaks French. This is the only country in the world where French is progressing faster than English and Creole, a dialect derived from Old French. But as it is also a population so different growing Hindi, Urdu and Mandarin are also fluent.
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Colonisation
It was the Dutch who built the first colony on the island and they gave it the name of Mauritius after their ruler, Prince Maurice of Nassau. It was in 1598, and soon the island became a thriving trading port as ebony trees were felled and shipped to Europe. For the Dutch, it was an ideal stop over linking their colonies of the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia (Indonesia). They would stop into Mauritius and then descend to the 40th parallel to catch the winds of the Roaring Forties before sailing up to their destination. It was during that period that Abel Tasman, left Mauritius to initially sail along the same route but with instructions to keep sailing eastwards instead of going up.
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