Enterprise Survey 2009
Mauritius, 2008 - 2009
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MUS_2009_ES_v01_M_WB
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Mauritius-2009--full
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most serious obstacle - reason why (mum1ax)
Data file: Mauritius-2009--full data-
Overview
Valid:
398
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
925
End:
1004
Width:
80
Format:
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Which of the following elements of the business environment, if any, currently represents the biggest obstacle faced by this establishment?
Reasons why
Reasons why
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| Access to finance is slow | |
| Access to finance most of the time rejected | |
| Access to finance too costly | |
| Access to land is too costly | |
| Affects good functioning of the establishment,teamspirit | |
| Bad Political atmosphere | |
| Bank interest rate too high | |
| Banking system not apt for small and medium enterprise | |
| Banks are not lenient at all with small enterprises | |
| Bidding with no answer corrupt practice | |
| Bussiness could not be expanded | |
| Can't operate | |
| Cannot work without electricity is needed for computers etc | |
| Clients do not pay on time | |
| Collateral required | |
| Competitors everywhere | |
| Competitors harmful for business | |
| Competitors have lower prices | |
| Competitors not prone to the same security standard | |
| Competitors prices are not aligned to those who pax taxes | |
| Copyright | |
| Corrupt Practice still affects customers | |
| Corruption ruins business | |
| Corruption when bidding on contract | |
| Cost of production not as high as mine | |
| Cost too high | |
| Decrease sales | |
| Difficult to find / train employees | |
| Difficult to get access to land . strategic places | |
| Difficult to have access to finance due to recession | |
| Difficult to have loan | |
| Difficult to obtain a loan | |
| Difficulties for recrutment | |
| Disloyal Competition | |
| Disloyal competition | |
| Do not apply | |
| Do not have a lot of expenses and lower prices | |
| Do not pax tax and rent | |
| Don't know | |
| Electricity | |
| Electricity is important for the tools of production | |
| Electricity is primodiale for the operation of my hairdresser salon | |
| Electricity is very important | |
| Electricity too costly | |
| Employee should always be supervised | |
| Everything increases day by day | |
| Everywhere there is corruption | |
| Finance is currently a key component for the good functionning of the company | |
| For security purposes cannot open late at night | |
| For the purchase of foodstuffs and oil | |
| Foul practice in bidding for contract | |
| Handicap for work | |
| Harmful for business no profit | |
| Have to provide secure loans | |
| High interest | |
| High interest rate imposed by banks are too high | |
| High interest rates and need guarantee | |
| High rate of interest | |
| Hotels rooms less expensive | |
| I sell more it is good for the enterprise | |
| If there is no electricity the company cannot fonction | |
| Incoherent loan procedures | |
| Incompetent | |
| Informal illegal competition is a great lost in terms of money to the establishm | |
| Integration takes too much time | |
| Interest rate and bank charges too expensive | |
| Interest rate fee of 14 % too expensive | |
| Interest rate too high | |
| Interest rate too high and procedures too complicated | |
| Interest rates are too expensive on loan | |
| Interest rates too high | |
| Interest rates too high and guarantee to0 | |
| Interest too high | |
| Isn't motivative | |
| It is rather consequent | |
| It's a must | |
| Labour laws quite complicated | |
| Lack of finance | |
| Lack of finance to develop the business | |
| Lack of infrastructure | |
| Lack of infrastructures | |
| Lack of labour | |
| Land property too expensive | |
| Land sold too expensive | |
| Leasing companies are better than the banks | |
| Loan are too expensive, they ask too much garantis | |
| Lower profit | |
| Margin requirements cause problem | |
| Mauritius Revenue Authority never satisfied even if we pay value added tax of 15 | |
| Money is life | |
| More problem took one year to get permit | |
| Much money spent on security because of theft problems | |
| Much money spent on training | |
| Much more effort needed | |
| Need Training Centre for the sector | |
| Need finance to complete projets | |
| Need finance to start a business | |
| Need guarantee | |
| Need guarantee so as to get access to finance | |
| Need trained workers | |
| News laws to be implemented at the custom department | |
| No adequate formation suggested | |
| No availability of workers | |
| No comment | |
| No easy finance | |
| No production or limited | |
| No reason | |
| No reasons specified | |
| No regulations in informal sector | |
| No tax to be paid by those in the informal sector and I have to sell at the same | |
| None | |
| Not a clean building for the company | |
| Not applicable | |
| Not much options | |
| Not treated equally | |
| Our business at loss | |
| Our quality must be brilliant or if the employees are not well organised the 2 w | |
| Parallel imports | |
| Pay contracts | |
| Personnal not well known | |
| Personnel very qualify for this work | |
| Pratiques | |
| Problems related to government that is corruption | |
| Problems with customs | |
| Procedures too slow | |
| Production affected | |
| Property too costly in city centre for business | |
| Rate of interest on the loan are expensive | |
| Recruitment should be done within the industrial zone | |
| Reimbursement period too short notice | |
| Requires additional guarantees for more funding | |
| Schedule of opening and closing hours | |
| Since the company is against corruption those companies accepting corruption wil | |
| Slow Procedures | |
| Slow at times | |
| Slow procedures concerning working permits and licenses | |
| Small contractor with lower quotations | |
| Small planters are left part with their projects | |
| Take to much time for a loan to be approved | |
| Take too much time & fund to make them trained | |
| Take too much time for obtaining working permits | |
| Tax rate is too high | |
| Tax rate is very high | |
| Taxation of inputs in production | |
| The business cannot function without transport | |
| The lowest price | |
| The payments not respected by clients cause problem | |
| The raw material decrease the taxes(too many tax) | |
| Theft | |
| Thefts problems | |
| There is a lack of employees on our premises | |
| They affect any business | |
| They are here to harm each other | |
| They are not officially registered and have nothing to pay on tax and value adde | |
| They connot read | |
| Those who import directly from China | |
| To travel everywhere through the island | |
| Too much colateral | |
| Too much colateral require | |
| Too much procedures | |
| Too much tax administrations | |
| Too much time spent at customs for requirements | |
| Total dependence on electricity | |
| Training is done in the organisation but staff left the organisation later on | |
| Transport | |
| Transport cost very high | |
| Transport facilities are not well structured | |
| Unfair competition | |
| Untrained labour will lead to loss of time and money | |
| Very Slow in decision making, laws are not respected | |
| Very often customers do not honour the contracts | |
| Very slow | |
| We pay a lot to contractor to transport our employees at night | |
| When orders of products are low, this lead to financial difficulties | |
| Without electricity no production | |
| Without electricity the company cannot function as usual | |
| Without electricity the company cannot function properly | |
| Without land the business cannot operate | |
| Working permits and licences take time to be approuved | |
| absent rate among worker | |
| abusive for the employers | |
| access to finance | |
| always have to do the arrangement though the empolyees are to be blame | |
| bank interest too high | |
| before and afer budget we do not work | |
| borowing from banks are becoming more difficult | |
| by experience | |
| compared to the competitors which are not taxes of under invoicings etc | |
| cost very high | |
| difficult access to financing | |
| difficult to find qualified persons | |
| difficult to recruit qualified person | |
| dificult to obtain finance | |
| don't have a balance at work | |
| electricity is essential for the enterprise without which the enterprise can't w | |
| expense more in security | |
| finance dificulty | |
| financial cost of the company | |
| guarantee | |
| harmfull for our bussiness | |
| high competion | |
| high cost | |
| high interest | |
| high interest on loan | |
| high interest rate | |
| high rate of interest & expenses | |
| interest on loans too high | |
| interest rate too high | |
| interest too high | |
| its like a competition | |
| lack of finance for investment | |
| lack of time | |
| local government do not approuve the license easily | |
| loss time | |
| many competitiors | |
| many competitors | |
| monthly investment is important for the good going of the enterprise | |
| need finance for salaries of employees ,rent& other expenses | |
| need guarantee for loans | |
| need waranty | |
| no comment | |
| no comments | |
| no reason | |
| no reasons | |
| none | |
| not finding the adequate people | |
| not qualify worker cause a problem | |
| one needs more money to have large contract | |
| other do not have any cost and premises and don't pay VAT | |
| practic for the mercant peddler | |
| practice in bidding for contracts | |
| principal cause | |
| purchase machine and bob cat | |
| rate tax is very high | |
| slow down in the investment level | |
| stagnation of the markets | |
| system of control is very expensive | |
| take too much time | |
| textile indutry actually facing difficulty | |
| the competitors seem not to follow the rules and regulations whereas this establ | |
| the garanties for capital are exagerated | |
| theft is a major problem | |
| they have no taxes | |
| they will pose problems on sites | |
| to have good work | |
| to lose the majority detender | |
| too expensive | |
| too high interest | |
| too many breakdown | |
| too much colateral required | |
| too much competitors | |
| too much time | |
| transport is very important in the business | |
| unfair competitions | |
| we should have people formed for this type of 2 | |
| without electricity cannot work | |
| work at night and is risky | |
| work will stop |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.