Enterprise Survey 2009
Mauritius, 2008 - 2009
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Mauritius-2009--full
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2nd most serious obstacle - reason why (mum1bx)
Data file: Mauritius-2009--full data-
Overview
Valid:
398
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
1007
End:
1086
Width:
80
Format:
Questions and instructions
Literal question
2nd most serious obstacle
Reasons why
Reasons why
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| Access to finance | |
| Access to finance is a must | |
| Access to finance too expensive | |
| Access to land & building too expensive for developments | |
| Affect companies profitability | |
| At times it's very difficult to have good and reliable workforce | |
| Bribe | |
| Building and location are still expensive in textile sector | |
| Builidings too expensive | |
| Business at loss | |
| Can be harmful for our business | |
| Competitors are everywhere | |
| Competitors in informal sector do not pay taxes | |
| Competitors in the informal sector do not pay taxes | |
| Competitors take over clients | |
| Complicated procedures | |
| Copyright | |
| Corruption big problem | |
| Corruption due to competitor | |
| Corruption is everywhere | |
| Cost of transport keep on increasing | |
| Decition for investment | |
| Decrease Sales | |
| Decrease profit margin | |
| Difficult access | |
| Difficult to pass by the norms on the other hand in the informal sector do it an | |
| Disloyal Competition | |
| Disloyal Competitors | |
| Disloyal competitors | |
| Disorder & theft means loss of Economic | |
| Do not apply | |
| Don't know | |
| Drugs are expensive for the public | |
| Electricity is a must | |
| Electricity too expensive for industries | |
| Everyone thinks corruption will make things to be settled faster | |
| Expensive | |
| Faces finance difficulty when the command of production nis low | |
| Finance remains a thing primodiale | |
| Frequent cuts | |
| Geographical Position | |
| Governement acts for corruption/ competiition | |
| Have to provide an adequate public 2 so that workers get easy access to freeport | |
| High absence levelamong workers | |
| High cost of fuel | |
| High tax on spare parts | |
| High taxes on imports | |
| I have to sell at the same price as thos awho ar informal | |
| Informal small share of the market | |
| Insecurity raises problem for the smooth running of the business | |
| Interest rate too high | |
| Interest rates too high | |
| It is great loss for the company | |
| It's difficult because we have to find money for our expenses | |
| Lack of financing from the government | |
| Lack of skilled employees | |
| Lacks training | |
| Laws are not made in a way so that people are accountable to their company | |
| Licenses and allowed has to reduce the price | |
| Loss of money because of corruption | |
| Loss of time and productivity | |
| Make us lose our contract | |
| Misfit formation obstructs cvonsiderably | |
| Money very high | |
| Most facilities needed at custom | |
| Much Money spent on security services | |
| Much money spent for security purposes | |
| Municipalities do not deliver licences and permits of works and most of them ar | |
| Must give commissions to have contracts | |
| Necessary to offer bribes so as to retain existing working permits | |
| Need too much guarantees so as to get easy access to finance | |
| Need training in such sector | |
| Need transport as we have to provide assistance to clients | |
| No comment | |
| No problem | |
| No reason | |
| No reasons specified | |
| Noise pollution, I would advise a PME village in order to avoid neighbourhood di | |
| None | |
| Not applicable | |
| Not easy to get loan from bank | |
| Not easy to have a loan with bank | |
| Not professionally interlectuel | |
| Not satisfactory with the dismissal of employees | |
| Not the same treatment applied to all by the customs officers | |
| Our business will be at loss | |
| Pay for contracts | |
| Practice of competitors decrease sales | |
| Problems arising from theft, crime are serious | |
| Re training in the enterprise is needed for the labour force | |
| Rent is too high and exagerate | |
| Rigid | |
| Rising price of fuel | |
| Sales tax high | |
| Security | |
| Should have more qualified workers | |
| Slow at times | |
| Slow procedures | |
| Take too much time | |
| Tariff for electricity too high | |
| Tax imposed by the Mauritius Revenue Authority is arbitrary | |
| Tax rate on diesel , electricity an gas increased considerably | |
| Taxations on second-hand cars are not quite fair | |
| The abstract sector offers of the lower prices | |
| The commercial restrictions in Europe and USA | |
| The enterprise will not be productive if the employees were untrained | |
| The financing is of primary important for the health of the company | |
| The transport is vital for employees and for delivery | |
| Theft & Crime harmful for company | |
| Theft is a major concern | |
| Thefts problems | |
| They are very strict and unpredictable | |
| This slow down the activity of the company | |
| Time and money consuming | |
| Time consuming | |
| To near to residences | |
| To start the business | |
| Too expensive | |
| Too many references of contracts , consultants seek official payments | |
| Too much political interference in the business | |
| Too much procedures to recruit expatriates | |
| Too much time spent on training of employees | |
| Too much time spent on working permits | |
| Traffic Congestion | |
| Transparency | |
| Transport congestion | |
| Transport is a major problem | |
| Transport of workers raises big problem and congestion too | |
| Transport very important | |
| Unfair competition | |
| Unfair practice in the informal sector | |
| Unpredictable laws | |
| Unreasonable claims are being made | |
| Untrained workers in screen fabric in Mauritius | |
| Waste of time | |
| Water is very imprtant | |
| We are certified ISO, we must have a qualified workforce | |
| We have too much cost to practice their price and too many register | |
| When changes occur in the government they help those having same political backg | |
| Without electricity business will not be able to function | |
| Workers Transport | |
| Workers not trained cause problem | |
| Youngsters do not want to do a blue color job | |
| access for land is too expensive | |
| airplane tarriffs | |
| cadre still too rigid | |
| cause problem | |
| competition | |
| complicity of employees and employees corrupted | |
| constraints to have a big loan | |
| corruption | |
| corruption create a big gap | |
| crime and theft could affect the abroad customers | |
| delay in work | |
| difficulties in attaining | |
| dificult to compete | |
| don't know | |
| every it changes | |
| expand the credit access | |
| expense more on security | |
| formation of worker | |
| harmfull for our bussiness | |
| high competion | |
| high interest | |
| important to the good running of the business | |
| informal sector have 40 % of the market share | |
| it does not favour productivity and self-con | |
| it is difficult to obtain finance | |
| it retards the work and once formed there will be effective work | |
| it takes time to train the workers | |
| it's even more expensive | |
| lack of competition bill | |
| lack of education | |
| lack of qualify person | |
| lateness to give permit | |
| manpower not qualify cause problem in the hotel industry | |
| more regularity | |
| need trained labour | |
| no answer | |
| no comment | |
| no comments | |
| no reason | |
| no reasons | |
| none | |
| not applicable | |
| poor quality of coaching | |
| practices of competitors,they do not pay taxes and lower their prices | |
| problem to have warranty | |
| purchase | |
| re-examine the laws | |
| slow at times | |
| targetting new market | |
| tax | |
| taxes are high on imports. This has a considerable factor on our profit marigin | |
| taxes should be lower | |
| that does not protect the local producers compared to the duty free island | |
| that would prevent us from leaving clean contracts | |
| the access of land is too expensive | |
| the competitors are increasing in that area and it's not easy for the markating | |
| the competitors buy the shares of the company in the market | |
| the workers absent handicap work | |
| theft on the shelves | |
| they do anything | |
| they don't have to pay for the cost of production thus they sell at low price | |
| this causes many problem to the enterprise | |
| too expensive | |
| too high | |
| too high taxes | |
| too many competitors | |
| too much competitions in price | |
| trade regulations in other countries prohibit us to have access to potential mar | |
| two land-to expand | |
| we can't work when there is surprise power cut | |
| when he needs some permits ,there is corruption | |
| without electricity the business cannot operate |
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.