Mauritius: an African Miracle. Inspiration for the USA?

"There was no miracle, just good economic policies".

This sentence from a former minister of finance, sums up this success, which sweeps the pessimism displayed by English economist James Meade before independence, who then thought that the absence of natural resources apart from sugar, combined with a galloping population and unemployment, fueling communal tensions in an unequal society, condemned the British colony to failure. Fifty years later, another Economy Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Stiglitz, suggests to the United States to take inspiration from the miraculous fate of the island.