MAURITIUS AND MADAGASCAR STEP UP CLOTHING AND TEXTILE MANUFACTURING COOPERATION

THE GOVERNMENTS of Mauritius and Madagascar are intensifying their efforts to improve cooperation between the respective textile and clothing sectors of these Indian Ocean island states. Mauritius officials stressed to just-style how nine major Mauritian textile and clothing enterprises have set up production units in Madagascar, helping boost the economy of this relatively less developed country. Such investment is expected to intensify, under plans to set up a ‘textile city’ industrial zone in Madagascar, in which Mauritius companies would play a key ...


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