Enterprise Survey 2009
Mauritius, 2008 - 2009
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Mauritius-2009--full
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3rd most serious obstacle - reason why (mum1cx)
Data file: Mauritius-2009--full data-
Overview
Valid:
398
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
1089
End:
1168
Width:
80
Format:
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Literal question
3rd most serious obstacle
Reasons why
Reasons why
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| Access to finance is too expensive | |
| Access to finance too expensive | |
| Access to market Mauritius is a small island and it is not easy for trading | |
| Accessibility of land very costly | |
| All equipment used for production make use of electricity | |
| Business cannot operate without electricity | |
| Competitors cause a major problem | |
| Competitors have no responsibility | |
| Competitors lacked skill labour | |
| Competitors practice low prices and this had no impact on their profitability | |
| Competitors usually do some priviledge to the Client | |
| Corruption and competitors prices | |
| Corruption harmful for company | |
| Cost of electricity too high | |
| Cost of plane, freight is exhorbitant | |
| Cost of transport | |
| Custom laws not in favour of entrepreneur | |
| Customs regulations complicated | |
| Delay in performing | |
| Departure of employees lead to retraining | |
| Depends on electricity | |
| Difficult to have acccess to finance due to recession | |
| Disloyal competition | |
| Disturb the working environment | |
| Do not apply | |
| Do not need the required qualifications | |
| Does not pall all fakes | |
| Don't know | |
| Dont´t know | |
| Don´t know | |
| Educated workforce is a must | |
| Electricity bill is very expensive every months | |
| Electricity cost too expensive for industrie | |
| Employees transport. Too much time spend in transport | |
| Environment | |
| Equal rule & procedures does not apply | |
| Finance and interest rates too expensive | |
| Finance is a must | |
| Finance is very important | |
| Have to follow many procedures | |
| High cost of electricity | |
| High rate of funding | |
| Increase in fuel, traffic conjestion | |
| Increasing tax rates | |
| Informal Sector is a high concern in this sector | |
| Informal and illegal competitors is a great lost in terms of money to this estab | |
| Informal sector is a high concern in this sector | |
| Insecurity raises problem for the smooth running of the business at night | |
| Interest rate | |
| Interest rate of 14 % too expensive | |
| Interest rate too high | |
| Interest rates are too high | |
| Interest rates too high | |
| Interest rates too high and exaggerate penalities | |
| Invest more on security | |
| It's a danger for the company | |
| It's difficult to obtain working permits for service stations | |
| It's difficult to retain trained employees, high rate of absenteeism | |
| Keep repeating same instruction everyday | |
| Lack of skilled workers | |
| Lateness at custom | |
| Lateness in delivery | |
| Laws are not in favour of employees | |
| Loose contracts | |
| Loss of contracts and unhealthy competition | |
| Lower prices in the informal sector | |
| More transport for the after sales 2 | |
| No comment | |
| No comments | |
| No investment,no direction | |
| No problem | |
| No reason | |
| No reason given | |
| No reasons specified | |
| None | |
| Not applicable | |
| Not easy to delegate tasks | |
| Not reliable | |
| One does not feel in security with the politicians | |
| Our business at loss | |
| Our business will be at loss | |
| Plot of land too expensive | |
| Prices are more competitive in the informal sector | |
| Procedures are too complicated | |
| Procedures are too slow | |
| Road Congestion | |
| Rude competition in the informal sector | |
| Security problem and loss | |
| Should review the shift system and a 24 hour 2 | |
| Sick leves | |
| Slow down in the progress level of sites | |
| System corrompus | |
| Tax rate too high | |
| The competitors in the informal sector did unfair competition as they do not hav | |
| The interest rates of the borrowing is too expansive for the company | |
| The note is compare with other competitor who are not register to voat | |
| Theft problems | |
| They are not tax payers | |
| They do not have general expenses like the enterprise and can lower prices and m | |
| They get involved in competition without being registered formally & evade like | |
| Time consuming | |
| Too much time and steps administratives | |
| Too much deduction/ procedures | |
| Too much formalities | |
| Too much losses because of robbery | |
| Too much procedures and bureaucracy implemented | |
| Too much time taken for procedures | |
| Total dependance on electricity | |
| Traffic congestics , delivery cost | |
| Traffic congestion lead to lateness in distribution of gas oil | |
| Transport | |
| Transport Congestion | |
| Transport cost too high | |
| Transport is very important | |
| Transport problems | |
| Transport very important | |
| Unfair Competitors | |
| Unfair towards individual | |
| Unqualified staff slow work which lead to a rise in cost of labour | |
| Waste of time | |
| We don't have appropriate institute for employee | |
| When electricty is off there is loss of man power | |
| Workers without experiment are not useful | |
| Working permits and licences take too much time to get | |
| a bit too high | |
| access to the grounds and building are very useful | |
| are warned by dangerous person | |
| be victims of Vohs | |
| because of guaranted | |
| can't work without being trained | |
| cost a lot | |
| covers to have loans are too demanding | |
| crime,too much bribe | |
| delay | |
| delay in production | |
| difficult | |
| don't know | |
| due to changes which often occurs | |
| electricity is too expensive | |
| electricity is used in the closing of plastic bags | |
| finance is importatant for the investment and the correct operation of my hairdr | |
| high interest | |
| in addition to the increase rate of bank loan interest the enterprise must also | |
| in the international formal sector,it may be that they practise unfair competiti | |
| informal competitors remains a danger to the business | |
| instability or on import some manner that we can | |
| is not applicable | |
| it's normal | |
| its very important | |
| loss in marketing | |
| must form worker | |
| no answer | |
| no comment | |
| no comments | |
| no reason | |
| no reasons | |
| none | |
| not applicable | |
| not good for the country | |
| not possible to compete | |
| practic by the competitors the prices drop because they do not have expenses | |
| practice of competitors decrease sales | |
| production in quantity and quality is less | |
| takes lots of time,need to pay storage-port authority,very slow | |
| tax unfair | |
| the cost is too high | |
| the information are forged or you came across with not honest person | |
| the sector is very dependent on tax rate,if the tax rate increases,this will aff | |
| there exist competition between formal sectors. This cost us a lot of money, onc | |
| there were two burglings lately | |
| too costly and that make us increase the price and we can't export | |
| too expensive | |
| too frequent cut off | |
| too high | |
| transport for worker cause problem | |
| waste of time | |
| waste of time which is precious for production | |
| without electriicity there is no production | |
| withoutelectricity some utilities of kitchen can't use and at administration the |
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.